Loop Head lighthouse to shine a light on frontline workers
December 13, 2020
LOOP Head Lighthouse is to play a key role in a moment of national solidarity this month. Photographs of front-line workers are to be beamed onto the Clare lighthouse in tribute to their tireless work during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The images were taken by photographer Jeanette Lowe and are one of six projection instalments across the country which will be illuminated in the days leading up to the winter solstice.
The art installations will form part of a nationwide multi-platform event Shine Your Light, or Lonraigh Do Sholas. The event will also feature a live TV broadcast on RTÉ One featuring Clare’s Sharon Shannon, and a radio special on RTÉ Radio 1.
Deputy Marc MacSharry has pleaded with party leader and Taoiseach, Micheal Martin to help fund necessary safety works at Sligo Airport.
In a letter to Mr Martin, Deputy MacSharry outlined how the airport in Strandhill was a base for the Irish Coast Guard and also served private flights and leisure flying. Under the instruction and on the insistence of Jim Gavin Assistant Director of the Irish Aviation Authority the airport is bound and set to undertake safety works by way of runway end safety areas together with the associated lighting alternations. The latter being the more costly parts of the required works as they require the reposition of lighting throughout the entire runway. The airport is in a position to fund much of the works from their own resources. However, in order to complete the works they must obtain €500,000 in capital expenditure support from Government.