LARGE crowds are expected today at the Co Waterford home of Michael Hayes as they pay their last respects to the skipper of the trawler Tit Bonhomme.

For one family, the mourning can finally begin. For another, the agonising wait continues.

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.

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

THE survivor of the sinking of the Tit Bonhomme was yesterday granted a heartfelt wish — to send his brother’s body home to his family.

The survivor of the sinking of the Tit Bonhomme and a daughter of missing skipper Michael Hayes lay five bouquets of roses in the water at Union Hall pier last night, one for each life lost.

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.