AN old banger of a bus that gave up the ghost before Christmas on Sherkin Island needs to be replaced as a matter of urgency.

A SHERKIN-Island based artist has taken the journey of the ghost ship, MV Alta, which washed up on the shores of Ballycotton in 2020, as inspiration for her debut solo exhibition in the Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre in Skibbereen.

THE ALLEGORY of the MV Alta by Majella O’Neill Collins will be opened on Saturday January 13th at 2pm by Flor MacCarthy at the Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre and will run until February 24th.

Majella O’Neill Collins lives and works on Sherkin and her experience of island living is a strong influence on her artistic practice.

Majella O’Neill Collins says she's become a bit obsessed by the wreck of the MV Alta. The disintegrating ship has even inspired much of the artist's exhibition at Uillinn in Skibbereen