Reader's Blog: Whiddy Island disaster - ‘Those poor men lost lives, lost everything’

On the morning of January 8, 1979, I was on a night shift at Great Island Power Station in Wexford, working as an operating technician, looking after one of Ireland’s largest steam turbine generators of the time (the 120MW unit 3).

At around 6.30am, I turned on the radio in the control room to listen to RTÉ’s early-morning news bulletin.