A report in the editions of November 22nd, 1999, on a recent inquest into the deaths of 24 sailors in an explosion on the SS Ardmore in the second World War, stated that a witness, Mr Peter Mulvaney, had said the registrations of the deaths of two of the sailors had been invalid because the Act which covered them applied only to those who died within territorial waters and it was presumed at the time that the sailors had died outside Irish waters.

In fact, Mr Mulvaney said the Act applied only to those who died outside territorial waters. The deaths have now been shown to have occurred within Irish waters.

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