Community Radio News Desk – Whiddy Island oil disaster with Tom McSweeney
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January 28, 2019
Recently the commemoration took place of the Whiddy Island oil disaster in Bantry Bay, County Cork. On 8 January 1979, around 1:00 am, when the oil tanker Betelgeuse exploded at the oil refinery on the Island, The explosion and resulting fire claimed…