Two more fishermen are feared drowned tonight after a second trawler sank off the Irish coast close to where five others died hours earlier.

Rescuers searching for the missing crew of a sunken trawler off the Wexford coast have found two empty life rafts from the vessel this morning.

A major search is underway for the crew of a Wexford fishing vessel that sank off the south-east coast yesterday.

Salvage experts have succeeded in raising the wreck of the Rising Sun from the seabed off the coast of Co Wexford.

Hundreds of mourners have gathered at the funeral of a diver who drowned off Co Wexford.

The body of missing diver Billy O'Connor has been recovered by a search operation off the coast of Wexford.

t is now more than a week since the diver Billy O'Connor went missing while on a recovery mission off the Wexford coast for the sunken lobster boat the Rising Sun.

A diving operation at the site of the sunken trawler, The Rising Sun, off the coast of County Wexford, has again been suspended due to bad weather.

The Coastguard and Naval Service are continuing to search for a lobster fisherman and a diver who have been missing off the Wexford coast since last week.