Searches launched for missing fishermen

The coastguard were last night searching for three missing fishermen in separate incidents off Cork and Clare.

Searches launched  for missing fishermen

At around 9.30 last night, the Marine Rescue Co-ordination Centre of the Coastguard in Valentia received a report of a vessel upturned off Cod’s Head in Cork.

A father and his teenage son are believed to have been on board the vessel at the time and are understood to have clung to the vessel for a period of time before the son successfully swam to shore to raise the alarm.

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