‘That’s fishing. Something like this is so frightening’

THE coastal communities devastated after two trawlers sank without trace off the south coast united in prayer yesterday as the search continued for a second day.

Mass-goers in the village of Dunmore East, Co Waterford, which was home to five drowned fishermen, gathered at church as locals in Kinsale, Co Cork, prayed for the skipper and Polish crewman from the Honeydew II.

A sombre mood descended upon the close-knit fishing village in Waterford as all hope faded that any of the men — Billy O’Connor, Andriy Dyrin, Tom Hennessy, Pat Hennessy, and Pat Coady — would be found alive.