The fiancee of the skipper of the Pere Charles trawler, which sank off the Wexford coast nine years ago, has settled her High Court action over his death for €225,000.

Margaret Jennings meets a mum who has set up her own business making baby-friendly accessories to help parents ease the suffering of children with eczema.

Sensory technology will soon allow lonesome grandparents, separated from their loved ones by geography, to touch and embrace via the internet.

Post-mortems will be carried out today on the bodies of three brothers who drowned when their fishing vessel overturned at sea.

In many ways it was a no-win job.

Dingle 4-05 St Kieran’s 0-14

Two Offaly football heavyweights met in today’s county SFC final in Tullamore with Rhode pulling through to claim their 25th title, moving them within one of Tullamore on the honours list.

Dingle 2-12 Feale Rangers 1-13

Dingle 5-5 Kilcummin 0-11

The mother of a drowned fisherman said she was “disgusted and appalled” to discover through the media that bones found at sea in the South-East two years ago.

Budgetary constraints are believed to be preventing DNA testing of bones found off the south-east coast which may have come from some of the fishermen lost when three trawlers sank in 2006 and 2007.

A TRAWLER that sank with the loss of five crew members almost two years ago had a heavier load than ever before at the time of the tragedy, according to an investigation.

A POINT by Dermot O’Sullivan in the 64th minute earned Cullen a second bite of the cherry in this keenly contested Duhallow JFC final at Kiskeam on Saturday.

AN examination of the interior of sunken trawler the Pere Charles is expected to take place today.

RELATIVES of the men who drowned on the Pere Charles last night spoke of their shock at the extent of the damage sustained by the trawler after it was finally raised from the sea-bed.

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.

A CRANE barge needed to lift two fishing trawlers sunk off the south-east coast must be re-rigged in Holland before it can assist in the salvage operation, it emerged yesterday.

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

THE Department of Transport has chosen a salvage company to be used in the mammoth task of raising two trawlers that sank off the Co Wexford coast with the loss of seven lives.

THE brother of the skipper of the Pere Charles trawler — which sank off the southeast coast earlier this year and lies on the seabed — yesterday said the Government needs to educate itself about search and salvage procedures.

HOPES are high that the wrecks of two trawlers lying on the seabed off the south-east coast will be raised to the surface in September.

ALL alterations made onboard fishing vessels should be immediately notified to the marine authorities, according to a report on the sinking of a trawler off the coast of Wexford, which resulted in the death of a crewman.

THE wives of two fishermen who drowned when their trawler went down off the south coast in early January laid anchor-shaped floral wreaths at a poignant seamen’s memorial in Kinsale, Co Cork yesterday.

TWO trawlers in which seven men died are to be raised from the seabed, following intensive lobbying by the families affected.

FAMILY of the five fishermen lost off the Dunmore East coast in January have launched a petition in a bid to get the stricken trawler, the Pere Charles, raised.

WREATHS will be laid at sea next month on the sites of a double trawler tragedy as part of a massive cross-channel fundraiser.

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

DIVE crews were due to enter the wreck of the Honeydew II again this morning to search parts of the galley and hold for signs of the its two missing crew members.

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.

ALL day they gathered in Dunmore East’s meeting points.

ANOTHER attempt to recover the bodies of five fishermen missing off the Co Waterford coast is likely to be made today, as weather conditions grow calmer.

THE children of two fishermen lost at sea attended special Masses over the weekend in preparation for their Confirmations.

The tragic events of the last 10 days have left the southern coastal community plumbing the depths of grief, loneliness and despair. Caroline O’Doherty explains why fishing is a riskier business than ever.

COASTAL communities had raised €17,000 by last night to help those affected by the sinking of doomed Kinsale trawler, the Honeydew II.

NAVY divers have been placed on alert for a possible return to Hook Head next Wednesday for a fresh attempt to recover the bodies of five fishermen missing since the Pere Charles sank 10 days ago.

DIVERS yesterday located the Pere Charles but near-zero visibility meant they were unable to see if the five crewmen were inside the stricken trawler.

“THE longest days of our lives,” is how a sister of missing fisherman Pat Coady has described the time since 6pm last Wednesday, when the herring boat Pere Charles sank near Hook Head, taking five crewmen with it.

Naval divers are searching the wreck of the trawler, Pere Charles, which sank six days ago in a bid to recover the bodies of the five missing crewmen.