Donegal locals campaign to turn beached boat into work of art

Fishing vessel Bád Eddie has become a tourist attraction since being abandoned on a Gweedore beach in 1977The fishing boat came ashore for minor repairs at Magheraclogher beach near Bunbeg in 1977 but the repairs never happened and Bád Eddie – Eddie’s Boat, in Irish – never left.It stayed wedged in the sand, abandoned to the elements in this windswept patch of County Donegal on Ireland’s Atlantic coast. Continue reading...