The first of three friends killed in a boating tragedy off the West Cork coast will be laid to rest today.

The removal takes place tonight of one of the three men killed in a boat fire off the west Cork coast on Monday.

WEST Cork has suffered another sea tragedy in the immediate aftermath of the Bantry Bay disaster when a man was swept into the water while fishing.

IT IS not known yet whether the 25-foot motor cruiser that burst into flames killing three men on the Beara peninsula this week will be raised from the seabed.

The remains of three friends who died tragically in a boating accident in west Cork on Monday have been returned to their families.

THE SON of one of the men who perished in the fishing tragedy off West Cork should have been aboard the ill-fated fishing vessel — but decided at the last minute to help a neighbouring farmer “save the hay”.

THE exact details that led to the deaths of three men in Monday’s West Cork pleasure cruiser blaze are unlikely to be known until spring next year at the earliest.

Post mortems are being carried out on the bodies of three men who died after their motorcruiser went on fire off the West Cork coast.

Marine accident investigators will begin an inquiry today into a boat fire which claimed the lives of three anglers.

An Irishman and two German men were killed last night after a boat caught fire during an angling trip off west Cork.