Trawler families meet to unite in grief

FAMILY members from two fishing tragedies along the south coast were united yesterday in their grief.

Mary Bohan, wife of Honeydew II skipper Ger Bohan, travelled from Kinsale to Dunmore East during the afternoon to meet with relatives of those who were lost on board the Pere Charles, as the weather continued to hamper efforts to find the bodies of seven fishermen.

A monument outside the parish church in Killea, Dunmore East, remembers local men who were lost at sea but whose remains were never found.