NAVY efforts to locate the wreckage of stricken trawler the Honeydew II and its two missing crew members have been described as ‘terrible’ by one of the missing skipper’s friends.

CANON John O’Mahony stood silently mouthing the rosary in Kinsale Harbour yesterday evening as less than 100 miles away poor visibility and worsening weather conditions forced search crews to return to shore without the two Kinsale fishermen they sought.