WHEN the remains of missing diver Billy O’Connor were brought ashore on Saturday, the 150 people who had gathered on Kilmore Quay applauded. The hero had finally returned home.

Navy divers today resumed their search for the body of the skipper of the Rising Sun boat, which sank off Co Wexford nearly two weeks ago.

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 massive search for a rescue diver and a fishing boat captain believed to have gone down with his vessel off the coast of Wexford was suspended tonight.

A massive search for a diver who went missing while looking for the lost captain of a lobster boat off the coast of Wexford resumed today amid bad weather conditions.

A massive search was underway tonight for one of two local divers who examined the wreck of a fishing boat off the coast of Wexford.

The family of a missing fisherman whose boat suddenly capsized off the Wexford coast will have to wait until the weekend for navy dive teams to complete their search, it emerged today.

Dive teams attempting to locate the skipper of a fishing boat which suddenly capsized off the Wexford coast tonight called off efforts to identify a sunken vessel.