Five Naval Service crew received medical treatment after getting into difficulties off Cork coast

Incident happened after crew had been dispatched from the LÉ William Butler Yeats on Tuesday night to inspect a fishing boat 

It is understood the injured boarding party members were in a RHIB (Rigid-Hulled Inflatable Boat) which had been dispatched from the LÉ William Butler Yeats on Tuesday night to inspect the fishing boat which was off the Co Cork coast. File picture

Five members of the Naval Service are understood to have received medical treatment after getting into difficulties while trying to board a fishing trawler.

The Irish Examiner understands the injured boarding party members were in a RHIB (Rigid-Hulled Inflatable Boat) which had been dispatched from the LÉ William Butler Yeats on Tuesday night to inspect the fishing boat which was off the Co Cork coast.