'Ghost ship' spotted drifting toward the Irish coast after it was hauled out of Canadian waters

Three weeks after it was cast adrift into the North Atlantic, a rat-infested “ghost ship” from St. John’s has put European authorities on alert after it reappeared drifting towards the Irish coast.

The 100-metre-long M/V Lyubov Orlova is still 2,400 km from the beaches of Galway, but the Irish Coast Guard is poring over satellite imagery to make sure the ship can be wrangled away before it drifts into shipping lanes or breaks apart on the coast.