The grieving father of the final crewman to be recovered following the sinking of the trawler Tit Bonhomme was “heartbroken but relieved” after his son’s body was brought ashore yesterday.

LARGE crowds are expected today at the Co Waterford home of Michael Hayes as they pay their last respects to the skipper of the trawler Tit Bonhomme.

The search for the bodies of two men, missing from the Tit Bonhomme trawler that sank off the West Cork coast, will be scaled back today.

Divers from all over the country are volunteering to help the devastated wife of a missing skipper find his body.

The Coast Guard helicopter hovered low over Glandore Bay as a ninth day of searching revealed no trace of two missing fishermen.

NO BODIES were found aboard the wreckage of the Tit Bonhomme, as sea conditions eventually allowed Naval and Garda divers to search the trawler five days after it sank off West Cork.

Navy divers have accessed the wreck of the Tit Bonhomme for the first time since the trawler sank in a storm on Sunday morning.

The mother of Egyptian fisherman Attia Shaban, whose body was recovered yesterday following the Tit Bonhomme tragedy, died shortly before her son.

The search will resume this morning for three of the five fishermen, who are believed to have drowned off the coast of West Cork, after their trawler sank in heavy seas last Sunday.

EGYPTIANS and Irish stood together in sorrow on the quays at Union Hall in West Cork yesterday as the bodies of two missing men were brought ashore.

AS closure came for some of those waiting on the quays for five long days, the anguish went on for others.

The body of a second fisherman has been recovered from the water at Union Hall in Cork today where the Tit Bonhomme trawler went down in heavy seas last Sunday.

THERE were high hopes in Union Hall that the bodies of five men who have been missing since Sunday morning would be recovered from the wreckage of the Tit Bonhomme which is lodged in a rocky gully in the mouth of Glandore Bay.

Dive teams are planning a fifth day of searches off the coast of Co Cork where they hope to find the bodies of five fishermen feared drowned in the Tit Bonhomme trawler tragedy.

THERE were angry and emotional scenes on the quayside in the West Cork fishing village of Union Hall yesterday as a crowd of Egyptian men demanded to know why their ambassador had not come to assist them.

THE only surviving fisherman from a trawler sunk off the south-west coast believes the five other crewmen’s bodies are still within the submerged vessel.