The Pisces fishing tragedy in which five people died must never happen again, the Marine Minister vowed today.

The leniency of a fine for a fisherman whose boat sank with the loss of five lives has shocked local people, a TD said today.

A fisherman whose boat sank with the loss of five lives was tonight found not guilty of manslaughter.

THE Irish Canoe Union yesterday backed a call by the Marine Casualty Investigation Board (MCIB) urging water sports enthusiasts to have basic training in rescue and survival.

People engaged in high-risk adventure sports should undertake basic training in rescue and survival techniques, an investigation into the deaths of two canoeists warned today.

The two men who died in a drowning accident on the River Barrow in south Co Carlow yesterday evening have been named.

FOUR men and a teenage boy went out last July with five other friends for a day's sea fishing.

THE owner of a trawler which sank off the coast of Co Wexford last year could face criminal prosecution after the official report into the accident found the boat was “unseaworthy, overloaded and unstable”.

A fishing trawler which sank off the Co Wexford coast drowning members of three generations of a family was not seaworthy, overloaded and unstable, a report published today revealed.

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.

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.

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

One of the five people who died in a boating tragedy off the Co Wexford coast on Sunday is due to be buried later this morning.

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.

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.