Amy English, the tragic daughter of Emma English, is set to have her name inscribed on a boat as part of the RNLI’s Launch A Memory campaign.
The 21-year-old daughter of the former FAI chief John Delaney’s ex-girlfriend Emma English died in a horror road crash in 2020 when the car in which she was a passenger collided with a lorry near Navan. The driver of the car, Derry man Conor McColgan, 23, was also killed instantly.
Amy's heartbroken parents continue to keep her memory alive and announced that Amy is one of 10,000 names which will be inscribed on a new all-weather RNLI lifeboat, which has reached its permanent home in Clifden in Connemara.
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The arrival of the St Christopher marks the culmination of a sell-out fundraising campaign, Launch A Memory, which invited people to have a loved one's name placed on the boat in return for a suggested donation of €30 to the RNLI.
Two years on, the initiative has been a sell-out success and Amy will be one of the thousands of names added to the vessel. The lettering is 3-4mm in height and contained within the RNLI letters and numbers of the lifeboat.
The long-awaited St Christopher set sail from Poole Lifeboat Centre in Dorset, England, on Friday with stopovers in Plymouth, Penlee, Ballycotton, Kinsale and Valentia before coming home to Clifden.
This life-saving vessel means so much to so many people whose loved ones will be remembered in a very special way; 10,000 names will go to sea with the crew every time the lifeboat launches.
