Fishermen could be offered grants to buy personal distress and location beacons under proposals being considered by Marine Minister Simon Coveney.

Fishermen could be off-ered grants to buy personal distress and location beacons under proposals being considered by the marine minister, Simon Coveney.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has met the families of the fishermen who drowned in the Tit Bonhomme tragedy in West Cork.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny is expected to visit Union Hall in County Cork today to meet with the familes of the fishermen who drowned in the Tit Bonhomme tragedy three weeks ago.

More than 50 volunteer divers will take part in the search today as part of what is likely to be the last push to find two fishermen who have been missing since their trawler sank off the Cork coast nearly three weeks ago.

The search for two fishermen who have been missing since their trawler sank off the Cork coast nearly three weeks ago is to be gradually wound down.

The search for two fishermen still missing after their vessel sank off the coast in West Cork two weeks ago has resumed this morning.

The search for two missing fishermen off the coast of West Cork is expected to be wound down for the night.

Divers from all over the country are volunteering to help the devastated wife of a missing skipper find his body.

Offers of help flooded in from all over Ireland yesterday after an emotional appeal from the wife of one of two missing fishermen.

Tens of thousands of euro has been lodged in a trust fund set up to help the families of trawlermen who drowned when the Tit Bonhomme sank off the Cork coast.

The massive sea and shore search for two lost fishermen will intensify this weekend before being scaled back next week.

There were emotional scenes as hundreds attended the removal of the youngest victim of the sinking of the trawler Tit Bonhomme, which hits rocks off the South-West coast.

The Coast Guard helicopter hovered low over Glandore Bay as a ninth day of searching revealed no trace of two missing fishermen.

Divers searching for the final two missing crewmen of the Tit Bonhomme are following the line of debris scattered by the sunken vessel.

NO BODIES were found aboard the wreckage of the Tit Bonhomme, as sea conditions eventually allowed Naval and Garda divers to search the trawler five days after it sank off West Cork.

Navy divers have accessed the wreck of the Tit Bonhomme for the first time since the trawler sank in a storm on Sunday morning.

The mother of Egyptian fisherman Attia Shaban, whose body was recovered yesterday following the Tit Bonhomme tragedy, died shortly before her son.

EGYPTIANS and Irish stood together in sorrow on the quays at Union Hall in West Cork yesterday as the bodies of two missing men were brought ashore.

THERE were high hopes in Union Hall that the bodies of five men who have been missing since Sunday morning would be recovered from the wreckage of the Tit Bonhomme which is lodged in a rocky gully in the mouth of Glandore Bay.

NAVAL divers will make efforts again today to search the 21-metre, steel-hulled trawler the Tit Bonhomme, which is lying in a gully near Adam’s Island at the entrance to Glandore Harbour, in the hope the bodies of its five missing crew will be found on board.

THERE were angry and emotional scenes on the quayside in the West Cork fishing village of Union Hall yesterday as a crowd of Egyptian men demanded to know why their ambassador had not come to assist them.

THE only surviving fisherman from a trawler sunk off the south-west coast believes the five other crewmen’s bodies are still within the submerged vessel.