Cleric speaks out for crew abandoned on boat for two months

THE State was criticised yesterday for allowing four Pakistani crewmen to remain abandoned on board a trawler which has been detained at a mooring off a Cork port for almost two months.

Canon David Williams, the rector of St Multose Church in Kinsale, Co Cork, and honorary chaplain of the Mission to Seafarers, described the State’s attitude to the Lucky Star vessel as “appalling”.

The men, who were abandoned by their captain and the vessel’s Greek owners, have been trapped on the 35m vessel, moored off Kinsale harbour, since mid March.