Family receive €40k following fisherman’s death

The family of Kevin Kershaw, who died on his first ever fishing trip when the Tit Bonhomme trawler went down off the Cork coast in January, has settled a High Court action for damages for €40,000.

Mr Justice Michael Peart yesterday approved the settlement to the family of the 21-year-old, who drowned when the fishing vessel sank in heavy seas.

Mr Kershaw had just begun his employment as a trainee fisherman on the Tit Bonhomme when, on Jan 15, it sank near Adam’s Island at the entrance to Glandore Harbour, off Union Quay, Co Cork.