It was a routine rescue for one of Ireland’s newest lifeboat stations but it created a little bit of RNLI history.

A man who lost an arm in a motorboat accident has called for the hero who saved his life to be honoured posthumously.

Rapidly growing West Cork Distillers, which was set up by local Union Hall ex-trawlermen and who now export to over 35 countries, have paid c€1.5 million for a former fish-processing plant on Skibbereen’s Marsh Road to allow them to continue their spirit-based business growth trajectory.

Ray Ryan reports that the future of Irish seafood is in safe hands, as BIM unveils an impressive shortlist for Young Fishmonger of the Year

Rescuers have evacuated a fishing crew from their stricken vessel despite treacherous weather conditions off the Cork coast.

The widow of the drowned skipper of the Tit Bonhomme trawler has bought a new vessel and named it after their youngest daughter.

A new lifeboat service went ‘live’ yesterday in a fishing village touched by one of the worst sea tragedies of recent years.

The new head of the RNLI visited Union Hall on the south coast yesterday to see where the port’s new lifeboat service is to be trialled over the next two years.

The company which operates the 999 emergency calls system has defended its staff for the way in which they handled two desperate 999 calls made from a mobile phone on the stricken Tit Bonhomme after it struck Adam’s Island.

The crumbling wreck of the Tit Bonhomme was barely visible to relatives who revisited the tragic site at Adam Island yesterday.

The problem of patchy television reception across West Cork was debated at a public meeting last night.

Fishermen could be offered grants to buy personal distress and location beacons under proposals being considered by Marine Minister Simon Coveney.

Cork County Council members stood in silence yesterday as one of its members recited the Fisherman’s Prayer in remembrance of the dead and those still missing from the trawler Tit Bonhomme.

CHICKEN curry, vegetarian chickpea soup, chilli con carne and stew.

The father of a young man feared drowned on a trawler with four experienced fishermen believes his son’s body is on board.

TOP prize money drew livestock exhibitors from all corners of the country to the Bantry Agricultural Show in west Cork last Sunday.

FOR one family the mourning can begin — for another family, the agonising wait goes on.

IT’S been a very good July for Church Cross, Skibbereen dairy farmer Jerry Hegarty. A couple of weeks ago he won his second All-Ireland Intermediate Road-bowling title in a titanic man-to-man struggle with Ulster champion Harry Toal.