Making a name

[oldbilbo]

...for herself. The fragrant Laura Kitching, of the 'Practical Boat Owner' news team, manages another geographical 'foot in mouth'....

See http://www.pbo.co.uk/news/534662/emergency-call-out-during-children-s-visit-to-lifeboat-station

Junior club members of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's Stormforce enjoyed an exciting visit to an Irish lifeboat station.

Fifty youngsters, aged five to 11, saw the all-weather lifeboat (ALB) crew setting out to rescue a broken down yacht in the Irish Sea during their tour around of the Boathouse at Lytham St Annes.

There was a time when mistakes of that kind would attract a spell in the print room cleaning ink off the rollers - for both the hapless cub journo AND the sub-ed who was 'not at his desk' when the error slipped through and escaped out into the real world - as this one has.

 

[alan_d]

Stands to reason, dunnit, that anywhere on the Irish Sea must be in Ireland (like the English Channel and Calais).

 

[VicS]

Looks Irish to me

 

[Boreades]

Not just geographically-challenged, but also typographically. Life is hard for junior reporters in this age of copy & paste journalism.

Coincidently, I was passed by a big RNLI lifeboat today. Near Oxford. It was doing 55mph, southbound on the A34 heading in the general direction of Southampton, on the back of a lowloader. There must be easier ways to respond to a Shout?