The report into the Tit Bonhomme trawler tragedy is expected to focus on what roles crew fatigue and their training in emergency drills played in the disaster which claimed five lives.

A tragedy that touched the hearts of the nation exactly 12 months ago was remembered in a fishing village last night.

The family of Kevin Kershaw, who died on his first ever fishing trip when the Tit Bonhomme trawler went down off the Cork coast in January, has settled a High Court action for damages for €40,000.

The sole survivor of the Tit Bonhomme trawler tragedy has spoken publicly for the first time about his fight for survival.

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

AS closure came for some of those waiting on the quays for five long days, the anguish went on for others.

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.

AT least a dozen Syrian secret police have defected from an intelligence compound, activists said, in what appeared to be the first major desertion from a service that has acted as a pillar of President Bashar al-Assad’s rule.

Gunmen killed three young children of a senior Palestinian intelligence officer today in a drive-by shooting in a street crowded with hundreds of school children, an unprecedented attack that could ignite widespread factional fighting.

Young schoolchildren screamed in horror today as Palestinian gunmen killed the nine-year-old son of a senior Palestinian intelligence officer in a drive-by shooting on a busy street, an unprecedented attack at a time of heightened tension between rival militias.

The news of the capture of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was greeted by dancing in the streets and celebratory gunfire by the people of Baghdad, according to reports.