Mother loses second son in sea tragedy

IN a double fishing tragedy yesterday a heartbroken Donegal mother lost her younger brother and a second son to the sea.

While the body of 65-year-old father-of-seven Eddie (Liza) Doherty was recovered from the sea yesterday, the search will continue today for his nephew, Robert (Jackie) McLaughlin, a 41-year-old single man.

Both men lived less than 100 yards from each other at Ross Head in the fishing village of Glengad, a townland overlooking the sea in the north of the Inishowen peninsula. They had gone out fishing from Portmore Pier, Malin Head, in Eddie’s 26ft fibre-glass boat, Jennifer, at 7am. The boat got into difficulties sometime before 10.45am when Eddie Doherty’s body, along with a scattering of debris, was spotted in the water by another fisherman.