Three-week search for two fishermen to be scaled back

Fishermen could be off-ered grants to buy personal distress and location beacons under proposals being considered by the marine minister, Simon Coveney.

The news emerged last night as the massive search operation for two fisherman missing for three weeks in Glandore Harbour was scaled back.

Skipper Michael Hayes, 52, from Waterford, and Egyptian crewman Saied Aly Eldin, 23, have been missing since Mr Hayes’s trawler, the Tit Bonhomme, sank in rough seas off Adam Island at the mouth of the harbour early on Sunday, Jan 15.