Family upset at delay in raising boat

THE family of a fisherman who drowned off the south-east coast have severely criticised the Government for the 21-month delay in raising the doomed boat which sank last year.

As the Maggie B was lifted to the surface yesterday morning, about a kilometre from Dunmore East harbour, a sister of skipper Glen Cott, 30, who died along with Jan Sankowski, 35, when the trawler sank in April of 2006, condemned the Government for its treatment of the families.

“I believed that the boat should have been raised at the time it happened,” said Sharon Cott. “They kept telling us there was no need to raise the boat and we kept telling them that there was.”