Thanks for the link. Much appreciated.

Much longer than that! She's been in the basin since 1989, and has been in a terrible state for years, but is still just hanging on. She was due to be scrapped in 2014 after hull inspection, but given a last minute reprieve by the government.

Plans to return her to Galway as a floating boutique hotel, restaurant and (you guessed it) micro-brewery have failed, though she might now be restored and brought into the city centre on the Liffey, near to "Cill Áirne" and "Jeanie Johnston".

The whole recent story here: http://www.thejournal.ie/naomh-eanna/news/

Does anyone if this former ferry is still afloat? I have read of preservation plans made about four years ago, but can find nothing definite as to her fate.
Built: 1958 for Coras Iompair Eireann for supply services to the Aran Islands from Galway.
She was moored in the Grand Canal Basin, Dublin in September 2013.