The investigation into the sinking of the Pisces off the coast of Co Wexford last year has found that the trawler sank because it was not seaworthy, overloaded and unstable.

A HARD-HITTING preliminary report into a drowning tragedy, which claimed five lives this summer, suggests the vessel the group travelled in was unsuitable for sea expeditions.

Thousands of people have turned out in the Co Wexford town of New Ross for the funerals of three members of the same family who died when their fishing vessel sank of Fethard-on-Sea last Sunday.

The funerals of four people who died in Sunday morning’s boating tragedy off the Co Wexford coast are due to take place in New Ross today.

OLIVER MURPHY was supposed to accompany his father, Martin, on last Sunday's ill-fated trip aboard the Pisces fishing boat that sank off the Wexford coast, but the vessel could only take nine passengers so he stayed ashore.

The funeral took place this morning of Martin Roche, one of the victims of Sunday morning’s boating tragedy in Wexford.

A ship surveyor was appointed today to assess how a boat sank leading to the deaths of four men and a boy, including three generations of the same family, amid growing indications that a faulty water pump caused the fishing trip tragedy.

Accident investigators were today examining a fishing boat in a bid to establish how it sank with the loss of five lives, including three generations of one family.

The body of missing 14-year-old Mark Doyle was transferred to Waterford Regional Hospital after divers recovered the remains yesterday.

The body of missing 14-year-old Mark Doyle has been transferred to Waterford Regional Hospital after divers recovered the remains today.

Hopes of saving a 14-year-old boy who is missing at sea were fading today following a fishing tragedy which claimed the lives of his father, grandfather and two other men.

Rescuers are today continuing their search for a 14-year-old boy missing after a fishing boat tragedy that claimed the lives of four others, including his father and grandfather.

Rescuers were searching for a 14-year-old boy missing after a fishing boat tragedy that claimed the lives of his father and grandfather and two other men today.