THE brother of the skipper of the Pere Charles trawler — which sank off the southeast coast earlier this year and lies on the seabed — yesterday said the Government needs to educate itself about search and salvage procedures.

THE wives of two fishermen who drowned when their trawler went down off the south coast in early January laid anchor-shaped floral wreaths at a poignant seamen’s memorial in Kinsale, Co Cork yesterday.

TWO trawlers in which seven men died are to be raised from the seabed, following intensive lobbying by the families affected.

THE organisers of the Northern hemisphere’s largest rugby sevens’ tournament are hoping to raise up to €10,000 from this year’s event for the Kinsale Trawler Tragedy Fund.

WREATHS will be laid at sea next month on the sites of a double trawler tragedy as part of a massive cross-channel fundraiser.

VINTAGE car owners rallied yesterday to raise over €10,000 for the families of the Pere Charles and Honeydew 11 trawler victims.

THE skipper of the West Cork trawler which sank on Monday has spoken of his relief and gratitude following the dramatic rescue of all seven crew members.

DIVE crews were due to enter the wreck of the Honeydew II again this morning to search parts of the galley and hold for signs of the its two missing crew members.

GARDA divers made four dives to the stricken Honeydew II vessel yesterday, but found no sign of its two missing crew members.

DIVING crews will make a determined bid to search for seven bodies today on the wrecks of two fishing boats which sank two weeks ago.

GARDA divers will this morning decide if sea conditions are good enough to go into the water at the location where the sunken trawler the Honeydew II was positively identified yesterday.

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.

THE children of two fishermen lost at sea attended special Masses over the weekend in preparation for their Confirmations.

The tragic events of the last 10 days have left the southern coastal community plumbing the depths of grief, loneliness and despair. Caroline O’Doherty explains why fishing is a riskier business than ever.

COASTAL communities had raised €17,000 by last night to help those affected by the sinking of doomed Kinsale trawler, the Honeydew II.

NAVY divers have been placed on alert for a possible return to Hook Head next Wednesday for a fresh attempt to recover the bodies of five fishermen missing since the Pere Charles sank 10 days ago.

A SPECIAL collection for the survivors of the Honeydew II trawler disaster and the family of a missing sailor has raised €7,500 in just 48 hours and is expected to grow rapidly in the coming days.

FISHERMEN are spending thousands of euro of their own money each day in order to keep searching for signs of the stricken Honeydew II, which sank more than a week ago.

BAD weather conditions forced the suspension of the sea search for the doomed Honeydew II trawler off the south east coast yesterday.

A FRIEND of the Kinsale fisherman missing with his crewman at sea for a week has said a full day’s search time was lost because the naval service did not pick up on signs the vessel was in difficulty.

WELLINGTON boots, fish boxes, mineral bottles, a lantern, ropes, part of a hand-painted nameplate — just some of the debris which has been found by the dozens of volunteers who have been searching the south-eastern coastline for nearly a week, and which is presumed to have come from the stricken Kinsale-based trawler, the Honeydew II.

ALL available resources are to be focused into an intensive shore search in Waterford this weekend as it is more likely the bodies of missing fishermen may wash ashore on those days.

Naval divers are searching the wreck of the trawler, Pere Charles, which sank six days ago in a bid to recover the bodies of the five missing crewmen.

“HIS children have now accepted that he is not coming back alive.”

A shoreline search for two crewmen missing from one of the trawlers that sank off the Irish coast resumed today.

“HE WAS a family man first and a fisherman second; he loved his family.”