The electrics on board a boat, which caught fire and sank resulting in the deaths of three men, were in poor condition, unsafe, and potentially dangerous, the Marine Casualty Investigation Board has found.

A landmark lighthouse which has helped guide boats, ships and tankers into one of Ireland’s busiest bays since Famine times has been decommissioned.

THE sole survivor of a fishing boat fire tragedy which claimed the lives of his three friends said he has daily thoughts of the accident.

IT IS not known yet whether the 25-foot motor cruiser that burst into flames killing three men on the Beara peninsula this week will be raised from the seabed.

THE SON of one of the men who perished in the fishing tragedy off West Cork should have been aboard the ill-fated fishing vessel — but decided at the last minute to help a neighbouring farmer “save the hay”.