Honeydew inquest calls for closer monitoring

THE Government is to be asked to implement “closer monitoring” of the country’s fishing fleet for safety purposes after an inquest heard that the alarm wasn’t raised for several hours after a fishing boat sank about two years ago.

Two men were lost as a result of the sinking of the Kinsale-based Honeydew II early in the morning of January 11, 2007, and a jury yesterday returned a verdict of accidental death by drowning in relation to skipper Ger Bohan, 39, and crew member Tomasz Jagla, 33.

Another two crew members survived the tragedy, and statements on their ordeal were read out at the inquest in Dungarvan.