Up to 1,000 people mobilise in effort to bring missing crew ‘home’

Up to 1,000 people will this weekend mobilise in an air, sea, and land search for missing R116 helicopter crew members Paul Ormsby and Ciarán Smith.

Fishing vessels from Mayo, Sligo, and Donegal will come together in a fleet of approximately 100 boats to comb a 1,000 sq km area of the north-west coast.

Today is day 26 of the search operation for the Irish Coast Guard R116, after the helicopter crashed off the Mayo coast, near Blackrock lighthouse, on March 14.