Union Hall search to intensify for the weekend

The massive sea and shore search for two lost fishermen will intensify this weekend before being scaled back next week.

Up to 40 civilian divers, with more volunteer Coast Guard and Civil Defence members as well as off-duty gardaí, are expected in Union Hall at the weekend in a push to recover the bodies of skipper Michael Hayes, 52, and crewman Saied Aly Eldin, 23.

They have been missing since Mr Hayes’s trawler, the Tit Bonhomme, sank after hitting Adam Island in Glandore Harbour early on January 15.