Taoiseach rejects Lost at Sea plea

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen has rejected the Ombudsman’s call to have the Lost at Sea report reopened.

Taoiseach rejects Lost at Sea plea

Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly had laid a special report before the Oireachtas on the Department of Agriculture’s refusal to pay compensation of €245,570 to the family of Francis Byrne.

Mr Byrne, his 16-year-old son Jimmy and three other crew died when the family’s fishing boat sank in a storm off Donegal in 1981.

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