THE lifting of the Pere Charles marked the culmination of a struggle which began on January 10 for the families of crewmen Andriy Dyrin, 32, Billy O’Connor, 52, Tom Hennessy, 30, Pat Hennessy, 48, and Pat Coady, 27, when the trawler sank while on its way back from a successful day’s fishing in the Celtic Sea.

FAMILIES of the men lost aboard the Pere Charles last January have been forced to endure another anxious night after bad weather delayed the salvage operation to raise the trawler from the sea-bed.

RELATIVES of the five fishermen lost when the Pere Charles sank in January are hoping that today will finally give them the answers they want about their loved ones.

THE family of a fisherman who drowned off the south-east coast have severely criticised the Government for the 21-month delay in raising the doomed boat which sank last year.

THE wrecks of two trawlers lying off the south-east coast are expected to be brought to Arklow harbour early next month.