Brother criticises salvage process

THE brother of the skipper of the Pere Charles trawler — which sank off the southeast coast earlier this year and lies on the seabed — yesterday said the Government needs to educate itself about search and salvage procedures.

The bodies of the Pere Charles skipper Tom Hennessy, 32, his uncle Pat Hennessy, 48, Billy O’Connor, 50, Pat Coady, 27, and Andriy Dyrin, 32, have not been recovered since the Dunmore East vessel sank about 2.5 miles from Hook Head, off Wexford, on January 10.

Hours later, the Kinsale-based Honeydew II sank 20 miles farther west, off Mine Head, with two crew members being rescued after spending about 18 hours in a life raft.