Search teams pray weather changes

PRAYERS will be said this morning that the weather will change sufficiently to allow divers to search the wreck of the Tit Bonhomme, which may conceal the bodies of five fishermen feared drowned after it struck rocks and sank at the entrance to a bay in Co Cork.

Navy and Garda divers were unable to search the wreck yesterday due to adverse south-easterly winds that prevented them getting inside the trawler, which sunk at the entrance to Glandore Bay at about 6am on Sunday.

The vessel, skippered by Michael Hayes — a brother of Chief Superintendent Tom Hayes, the senior garda in West Cork — went down after hitting the notorious rocks at Adam’s Island.