‘Mediterranean migrant crisis like the Famine’

A naval service ship has received a huge honour from Boston after its mayor declared that from now on the US city will mark every October 6 as LÉ Samuel Beckett Day.

‘Mediterranean migrant crisis like the Famine’

A naval service ship has received a huge honour from Boston after its mayor declared that from now on the US city will mark every October 6 as LÉ Samuel Beckett Day.

The honour was bestowed by Boston mayor Marty Walsh through a special proclamation he issued in recognition of the ship’s rescue mission in the Mediterranean Sea during which it saved 4,200 migrants from drowning.

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