Sea and land searches on hold over poor weather

BAD weather conditions forced the suspension of the sea search for the doomed Honeydew II trawler off the south east coast yesterday.

A week after the Kinsale-based trawler was smashed by a giant wave about six miles south of Mine Head, dozens of volunteers searched a 70-mile stretch of coastline between Bunmahon and Carnsore Point yesterday morning. The search was scaled back in the afternoon.

The families of the missing fishermen, Ger Bohan and Polish native, Tomasz Jagla, were being kept informed of developments throughout the day.