More lives could have been saved in the Tit Bonhomme fishing tragedy if the helicopter response had been quicker, the skipper’s widow believes.

The report into the sinking of the "Tit Bonhomme" near Glandore Harbour in West Cork has said that the biggest factor in its sinking was "insufficient rest for the crew".

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.

A village that held fast to the spirit of its seafaring traditions welcomed President Michael D Higgins yesterday to commemorate the crew of the Tit Bonhomme.

The body of the skipper of a trawler which sank three weeks ago has been recovered during a shoreline search by his brother.

The brother of the skipper of a sunken trawler was part of a team which has found a body in the search for two missing fisherman.

Weather conditions today look set to hamper one of the most comprehensive dive searches ever to take place in Ireland as the search for two missing fishermen continues in West Cork.

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.

Navy teams have today begun a dive on the wreck of a trawler in the search for the bodies of five fishermen.

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 families of two men feared drowned on the Tit Bonhomme trawler tragedy off Cork have lit candles and dropped flower petals into the sea in a heartwrenching visit to the crash site.

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.

PRAYERS will be said this morning that the weather will change sufficiently to allow divers to search the wreck of the Tit Bonhomme, which may conceal the bodies of five fishermen feared drowned after it struck rocks and sank at the entrance to a bay in Co Cork.

THE bodies of some of the five missing crewmen of the tragic Tit Bonhomme trawler may still be trapped on board.

YOUNG Kevin Kershaw (above) dreamed of a life at sea, his grief-stricken family revealed yesterday.

THE notorious rocky island at the mouth of Glandore harbour which claimed the Tit Bonhomme almost claimed three lives before Christmas.

A YOUNG man who was on his first fishing trawler trip is among five men feared drowned after their boat sank within sight of home yesterday.