Tipperary native Patrick Maher negotiated the handover of all forts in Cork harbour to the Irish government in 1938 and later became manager of Shannon Airport
In a ceremony lasting just seven minutes, military personnel from the then most powerful empire in the world handed the Treaty Port of Spike Island over to the fledgling Irish state
There is no wheelchair accessible bus transport from the island’s harbour up to the main fort, which had been due to host an exhibition about the Paralympian and disability rights campaigner