€800k to help industry improve safety at sea

The Government is to offer grant aid to fishermen to help them buy personal locator and vessel location beacons as part of a wide-ranging safety package aimed at the industry.

The initiative, aimed primarily at fishing vessels under 15ms, was announced in Union Hall, Co Cork yesterday, by Marine Minister Simon Coveney and Transport Minister Leo Varadkar within sight of where five men drowned when their vessel, Tit Bonhomme, struck rocks at the mouth of Glandore Harbour in Jan 2012.