A COMPREHENSIVE report into a sea tragedy that claimed five lives has been further delayed.

LIVES were lost aboard an inshore pleasure fishing boat off Wexford last summer due to the absence of an inflatable life raft and a lack of life jackets, a draft marine report reveals.

The sky will be lit tonight by a heavenly phenomenon similar to that which may have led the wise men of the Nativity to the birth of Christ, a renowned Irish astronomer has claimed.

A HARD-HITTING preliminary report into a drowning tragedy, which claimed five lives this summer, suggests the vessel the group travelled in was unsuitable for sea expeditions.

The inquest into the deaths of five people in a fishing accident off the coast of Co Wexford in July has returned verdicts of death by drowning.

ALL passenger boats must have a licence from January 1, Marine Minister Dermot Ahern announced yesterday.

One of the five people who died in a boating tragedy off the Co Wexford coast on Sunday is due to be buried later this morning.

A book of condolences has been opened in the town of New Ross for the five people who died in a fishing boat tragedy yesterday.

A body has been found 150m east of the wreck of the Pisces boat off Fethard-on-Sea in Co Wexford.

The wreck of the ‘Pisces’ has been examined on the seabed a mile off Fethard-On-Sea.

Four men died and a teenager was missing after a boat on a fishing trip sank off the coast of County Wexford yesterday.

Four people have died and one other is missing after a boating accident off the Irish coast today.

A comet discovered by astronomers this year and heading past the Earth later this month will be bright enough to see with the naked eye.