Port of Cork and RNLI team up to teach hundreds of students about water safety

One student at the event said two drowning tragedies in Cork Harbour last year affected her group of friends

(Front row, left to right) Pupils from Ringaskiddy Lower Harbour NS, Daniel O'Rahilly, Matthew O'Neill and Ruby Mai Pierce and (back row, left to right) Stephen O'Flaherty, National Ambulance Service, Peter FitzGerald, Irish Coast Guard, Paul Harrington, Carrigaline Community First Responders, and Linda-Jean Byrne, RNLI, at the Cork Container Terminal (CCT), Ringaskiddy, for a “Student Safe” water safety event on Wednesday. Picture: Diane Cusack

Hundreds of young people were taught CPR and how to float to survive at a major water safety event in Cork Harbour on Wednesday as part of a multi-agency, pre-summer holidays drive to prevent drowning tragedies.

The Port of Cork Company teamed up with the RNLI to host over 300 secondary and primary school students at its port terminal buildings in Ringaskiddy at the ‘Student Safe’ water safety event.