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Gus Dempsey (left) and George Webb light candles at a memorial in Union Hall for the five missing men off the coast. Julien Behal/PA Wire/Press Association Images

Second body recovered near sunken trawler off Cork coast

The Garda and Naval Service Diving Units continue their search this afternoon.

Updated 1.32pm

DIVERS FROM THE Garda Diving Unit and the Naval Service have recovered two bodies near the wreck of the trawler which sank off the Cork coast on Sunday.

Earlier this morning, a spokesman for the Valencia Coast Guard told TheJournal.ie that the first body was found by a Garda dive team who were searching near the wreck at Adam’s Island at about 10am.

This afternoon, a second body was located by divers from the Naval Service unit at about 1pm.

The dive units have taken the bodies to shore and an identification process will begin.

The search for the other three missing fishermen continues. The Coast Guard has advised that the rescue teams are doing as much as they can while conditions remain favourable.

“The sea conditions will begin to worse as the day goes on and the swell is already increasing,” he said.

Earlier…

Dive teams and coast guard units resumed the search around the wreckage of a trawler carrying five men which sank off the coast of west Cork last weekend.

The search will resume this morning for the five fishermen who went missing after their trawler sunk off the coast of Union Hall on Sunday morning. One man survived the sinking of the Tit Bonhomme in the Glandore Bay area.

Efforts to recover the vessel have been hampered by weather conditions over the past few days but divers were reported to have made progress yesterday. However they have not yet entered the vessel.

A spokesman for Valentia Coast Guard told TheJournal.ie this morning: “The search will be recommencing again this morning. The weather is good this morning but there are gales forecast later today.

It’s not easy, it’s very difficult for the divers given the swell. When they don’t go in, they dont go in for a reason. It’s very dependent on the weather.

Though the divers did not get into the vessel yesterday they did carry out an extensive search of the surrounding area. Garda and naval dive teams as well as coast guard units, helicopters and the RNLI are taking part in the search.

The five missing men have been named as Michael Hayes, 52, Kevin Kershaw, 21, as well as Egyptian nationals Wael Mohammed, Saied Ali Eldin and Attia Shaban. Wael’s elder brother Abdou survived the disaster.

-Additional reporting by Sinéad O’Carroll

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    Mute Dave Walsh
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    Oct 24th 2019, 7:08 AM

    Well paid full-time jobs gone. what’s out is there is mostly short-term or zero hour part time positions. And if you attempt to join a union, your gone.. Not to mention if your older… In a few weeks they people who lost there jobs will be long forgotten by Dublin…

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    Oct 24th 2019, 7:03 AM

    Multinationals aren’t the benign overlords of FFG Mythology but relentlessly greedy entities that only care about enriching their own shareholders.

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    Oct 24th 2019, 7:12 AM

    @Fifty Shades of Sé: The purpose of every business is to create value for a shareholder by delivering value to a customer.

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    Oct 24th 2019, 7:36 AM

    @Peter Carroll: Yet we treat them as if their purpose is to improve our domestic economy, structuring our entire tax code in their favour while ordinary Irish workers get constantly shafted.

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    Mute Peter Carroll
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    Oct 24th 2019, 7:44 AM

    @Fifty Shades of Sé: No, that’s our (the State’s) purpose. The multi-nationals come here to take advantage of and benefit from the incentives on offer. Everyone knows that that’s the deal.

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    Oct 24th 2019, 7:57 AM

    @Peter Carroll: The state is doing a much better job enriching obscenely wealthy companies than it is taking care of it’s own citizens. The Novartis employees will have to live on €200 a week until they find another job, many of them won’t be able to pay rent or a mortgage, but hey, the hedge fund owners who invest in companies like Novartis might be able to buy more private jets so it’s all good.

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    Mute Dave O'Keeffe
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    Oct 24th 2019, 8:33 AM

    @Fifty Shades of Sé: what do you suggest? The vast majority of businesses are run the same.

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    Oct 24th 2019, 10:08 AM

    @Fifty Shades of Sé: I am not making a moral point. You can deal with the State through the ballot box, if you can get enough people to agree with you. Ironically, Ireland has one of the worlds largest aircraft leasing businesses!

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    Oct 24th 2019, 10:14 AM

    @Fifty Shades of Sé: These companies have been employing people for decades allowing said employees to build their own standard of living. Are you serious with your comment? Do you think the workers would have preferred unemployment instead?!

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    Oct 24th 2019, 3:39 PM

    @Fifty Shades of Sé: Absolute rubbish. Multinational manufacturers are huge net exporters which contribute massively to our economy without which our exchequer would not be able to provide many of its services. They have given hundreds of thousands of well paid jobs which in turn supports local suppliers, contractors and businesses. What should we do, run them away and return to making clay pipes and fiddles and become third world?

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    Oct 24th 2019, 11:23 PM

    @Fifty Shades of Sé: So just what do you suggest is the answer,are you suggesting we force multinationals to keep employing people against their will,they wouldn’t even set up manufactoring plants in this country in the first place, it would be much better if people like you with a huge chip on their shoulder got rid of the victim mentality and done something positive.

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    Oct 24th 2019, 9:00 AM

    Sadly when a country like ours, who over rely on the mercy of these up and leave at any time multinationals, then you always run the risk of huge job culls at times. However while the government can’t be blamed for this, it is a bit of a stomach churner that these large and very wealthy companies are given special treatment in relation to things like the tax they pay here, while home grown businesses are made to pay higher amounts all because they don’t maybe have the same financial muscle or employee numbers, but will likely last longer and not do a runner when a better opportunity in some other low level country presents itself to move operations there and leave its employees jobless…..

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    Oct 24th 2019, 11:48 AM

    The sad thing is that by announcing the job losses now to start taking place from April / May next year, actually helps Fine Gael’s election prospects in a Spring 2020 election. If those job loses were announced in April with immediate impact, it would be difficult campaigns for Simon “Get me to a BRXIT or other EU meeting to avoid home trouble” Coveney. Like Michéal “I want all the power, but not during BRXIT” Martin, they have failed the city and county of Cork.
    FFG forget that there are people outside the M50.

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