Tragedy for Dunmore East

Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, has welcomed members of the bluegrass communities of these islands, Europe, and the USA since the first annual International Guinness Bluegrass Music Festival was held there in 1995.

Among the many new features at Dunmore East since then is the memorial at the harbour to those lost at sea - a reminder of the realities that support the picturesque surface of a fishing village. The loss of further lives in this week's storms will be felt by everyone who knows Dunmore East; and the sympathies of the bluegrass world should be extended to the families of the crews of the Pere Charles and Honeydew II.

A report on the disaster from Friday's Irish Times can be found here.