Glandore Harbour

By Shelley Marsden

A search of Glandore Harbour for two fishermen missing since their trawler sank off the Cork coast almost three weeks ago is to be gradually wound down.

The men's families are again asking for volunteers to join the search aroundGlandoreHarbourin westCork.

Today is day 20 of one of the most intensive land, sea and air search efforts ever mounted inIreland.

One survivor was rescued not long after the Tit Bonhomme sank close toAdamIslandat the entrance to the harbour.

Since then three crew members’ bodies have been recovered, but 52-year-old skipper Michael Hayes and 24-year-old crewman Saied Aly Eldin have not been found.

The men's families have again called on experienced search and rescue divers, the owners of ribs and small boats and people to walk the shoreline to join the search.

Searching is expected to wind down gradually in the early days of next week.