Prayers said for missing crewmen

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Prayers have been said for the seven fishermen missing from trawlers off the southern coast of Ireland.

Search operations resumed earlier for the men missing from the Pere Charles and Honeydew II trawlers which sank in heavy seas last week.

Sub-aqua teams had been prevented by high winds and poor visibility from searching underwater.

Two men were lost from the Honeydew II's crew and all five crewmen from the Pere Charles are missing.

Two other members of Honeydew II's crew were found on Thursday in a life raft after 20 hours adrift.

They were found close to where the other trawler, the Pere Charles, sank hours earlier. Five men are still missing.

Two life rafts and debris have been found close to where the Pere Charles went down.

The surviving crewmen of the Honeydew II were picked up from a life raft by a Coastguard helicopter near Mine Head on Thursday night.

The men, both Lithuanian, have been named locally as Viktor Losev, 46, and 47-year-old Vladimir Kostvr.

The missing men are the skipper, Ger Bohan from Kinsale, and Tomasz Jagla, 30, who is married with two children.

Prayers for the missing trawlermen and their families were said at all churches in Kinsale and Dunmore East

An Irish Coast Guard helicopter is conducting a coastal search from Ardmore in County Waterford to Carnsore Point in County Wexford to try to find debris from the Honey Dew II.