West Cork clean coast campaigner picks up national Ocean Hero award
Mark McCarthy, from Schull, Co Cork , joint winner of, Campaigner of the Year Award, at the Clean Coasts’ Ocean Hero Awards 2024.
A champion of West Cork’s stunning coastline has been named a campaigner of the year at Ireland’s Ocean Hero awards.
Schull-based Mark McCarthy, the son of a lighthouse keeper who has traveled the world working on the sea, was described by judges of An Taisce’s Clean Coasts initiative as one of the go-to people in West Cork for their environmental project which works with communities to help protect and care for Ireland’s waterways, coastline, seas, ocean and marine life.
