Cork heritage group gets go-ahead to build Lusitania museum

In 2019, an American businessman Gregg Bemis donated the wreck of the Lusitania to the Old Head Signal Tower Heritage group

During World War One, the British passenger liner Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-boat off the Cork coast, resulting in almost 1,200 deaths. File photo

A Kinsale-based heritage group has received planning permission from Cork County Council for a new museum to commemorate the Lusitania.

The Old Head Signal Tower Heritage CLC has gotten the green light for a new Lusitania Museum on a site close to where the vessel infamously sank more than 100 years ago.