There have been further calls from around the country to echo yesterday's Irish Marine Federation (IMF) suggestion that the Jeanie Johnston replace Asgard II as a sail training ship, if only on a temporary basis. In a number of articles on the sinking in the Irish Times this weekend Anne Lucey reports from Kerry where the Jeanie Johnston was built here
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