Search continues for fisherman

LOCAL boats continued to scour the waters off the west Cork coast for the Egyptian fisherman who fell overboard on Saturday morning.

The man fell from the 22-metre Union Hall-based trawler, Janireh, which was hauling its nets 15km south/south-west of the Fastnet Rock at around 1.45am.

The vessel’s owners, Christopher and Denis Deasy, turned the boat to stern in a bid to rescue him from the water, their nets became caught in its propellers, rendering it powerless. They threw him a lifebuoy but he slid below the surface.