The first transatlantic telephone cable to be landed in Ireland was brought ashore in County Cork this morning. It is part of three hundred million pound project which will make this country independent of Britain for the first time in telecommunications traffic by cable.
Report shows the telephony cable being brought ashore at Garretstown.
Unidentified person demonstrating the high tech fibre optic cable.
Interview with Michael Sheridan, Director, Business Development, Telecom Éireann, who says the cable allows total independence in transatlantic communications.
Photograph of first Transatlantic Morse Cable being hauled ashore in Valencia in 1858.
The reporter is Tom MacSweeney.
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