GARDA divers will this morning decide if sea conditions are good enough to go into the water at the location where the sunken trawler the Honeydew II was positively identified yesterday.

TWO empty, lightweight sea-craft lie moored to the harbour wall at Dunmore East, visible to all the locals who gather intermittently at the top of the street to look over the harbour and wonder when the bodies of the Pere Charles crew will be returned to the village.

As FAMILIES and friends of the seven fishermen who perished in awesome seas waited in growing hopelessness, the country shares in their appalling and dreadful anguish.