‘Lovely Anne’ welcomed back to water after restoration

King of the Claddagh Michael Lynskey and his community took to the Galway waterside at the weekend to welcome home a workboat which plied the Atlantic during two world wars.

The 8m-long gleoiteog named Lovely Anne has has been restored for sail training by Bádoirí an Cladaig. Some 10 nationalities were involved in refurbishing the gleoiteog, built by the well-known boatwright Patrick Brannelly in 1882 when German leader Otto van Bismarck and British prime minister William Gladstone were in power.