Video: Man recalls losing his father in Whiddy Island disaster on same day his grandmother died of cancer

A man whose father died in one of Ireland's worst ever industrial accidents has said the disaster left his family with "a void" for years afterwards.

A ceremony is taking place in West Cork today to mark 40 years since the Whiddy Island disaster where 50 people died after a French oil tanker exploded after docking at the Whiddy Island oil terminal in Bantry Bay, Co. Cork, in January 1979.