A celebrity wreck

This shipwreck is known locally as Bád Eddie, Bád meaning boat in Irish, so once it was Eddie's boat.
She was a fishing boat and she was originally built in Brittany, France, and bought by local fisherman Eddie Gillespie. In 1977 she needed two planks repaired and she was towed ashore onto Magherclougher beach and somehow got left. The repairs were never done and she is there for almost 50 years.
And she became a celebrity! She was featured in a U2 video, has her own twitter account and is very much loved by both tourists and locals.
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