Friends, old and new, gathered on Tuesday morning on a very special piece of land overlooking the still waters of Dunmanus Bay, to remember and pray for the victims of Air India flight 182.
Exactly thirty years previously, at 8.12am on the morning of June 23rd 1985, a bomb exploded on an Air India flight from Montreal to Delhi, just off the West Cork coast.
A total of 329 people died, 86 of them children, and beautiful Ahakista on the Sheep’s Head Peninsula is where the relatives annually come to find some peace.
Joining the relatives at the memorial at this year’s commemoration were Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan; Indian Minister for External Affairs Mr VK Singh; Canadian Justice Minister and Attorney General Peter McKay, as well as the ambassadors from India and Canada.
27/06/15 Brian Moore/Southernstar
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Exactly thirty years previously, at 8.12am on the morning of June 23rd 1985, a bomb exploded on an Air India flight from Montreal to Delhi, just off the West Cork coast.
A total of 329 people died, 86 of them children, and beautiful Ahakista on the Sheep’s Head Peninsula is where the relatives annually come to find some peace.
Joining the relatives at the memorial at this year’s commemoration were Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan; Indian Minister for External Affairs Mr VK Singh; Canadian Justice Minister and Attorney General Peter McKay, as well as the ambassadors from India and Canada.
27/06/15 Brian Moore/Southernstar
