On this edition – The European Court of Justice declares that Ireland’s Marine Casualty Investigation Board is not independent The lawyer who has pursued the issue for many years responds.

And, why was the world’s first motorboat race staged on the River Lee in Cork? A historian gives us the answer - with the history of a national boating club no longer in existence.

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