The captain of a huge cargo vessel who lost “effective control” of his ship off the Cork coast and came dangerously close to running aground, has been fined for failing to notify the coast guard of the incident.

The head of the Irish Fishermen’s Organisation has said training initiatives for fishing crew needed to be available to everyone, regardless of nationality.

The change of course which led the fishing trawler Tit Bonhomme to smash into Adam’s Island in Glandore Harbour was due to “human intervention”, an inquest heard yesterday, in dramatic testimony that challenges aspects of the only report yet carried out into the tragedy.

THE widow of a fisherman who died in a trawler accident has pleaded with the Government to review the scramble times for night-time helicopter rescue missions.