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Three fishermen have died after their fishing vessel overturned at sea, gardaí have confirmed.

Two fishermen escaped from their trawler off the South-East coast yesterday after it went ablaze and later sank.

A kayaker who had gone missing this afternoon off the coast of Co Wexford has been safely rescued, coastguard officials said.

VINTAGE car owners rallied yesterday to raise over €10,000 for the families of the Pere Charles and Honeydew 11 trawler victims.

THE skipper of the West Cork trawler which sank on Monday has spoken of his relief and gratitude following the dramatic rescue of all seven crew members.

THERE are mixed emotions at Turner’s Cross today as Cork City rue the loss of a valued player but welcome what is believed to be a record-breaking eircom League fee which, after quite a protracted transfer saga, has finally taken Alan Bennett to Premiership Reading.

THE Department of Transport has not ruled out the possibility of raising the wreck of the Pere Charles from the seabed in an attempt to find out how it sank and what happened to its five crew men.

WELLINGTON boots, fish boxes, mineral bottles, a lantern, ropes, part of a hand-painted nameplate — just some of the debris which has been found by the dozens of volunteers who have been searching the south-eastern coastline for nearly a week, and which is presumed to have come from the stricken Kinsale-based trawler, the Honeydew II.

THE search for the five fishermen who were on board the Pere Charles is now concentrated on an area of sea about two miles off Hook Head.

THE Pere Charles, a 25-year-old 20-metre herring boat set off from the harbour at Dunmore East in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

GREATER legislative recognition of the country’s traditional and artisan methods of food production was demanded at an awards ceremony in Dublin yesterday.

A search operation is expected to resume in Waterford today for a man who entered the river at Wrights bridge in the city.

THE Port of Waterford has lodged a detailed objection with Waterford County Council to the long-awaited new harbour at Dunmore East, Co Waterford.

IN the Irish Examiner of Saturday, March 20, under the headline ‘Protesters demand cancer services,’ it was stated that ‘hundreds’ attended the protest in Waterford.

The body of a woman has been taken from the sea off Co Waterford.