But one very important primate was missing when the the airmen left the west Cork town.

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For centuries it was part of the rich fishing grounds of West Cork's O'Driscoll clan, and the locals would not have been averse to the odd shipwreck giving them an opportunity for plunder.

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Dolores Kelly of the SDLP said she hoped that members would join her in extending condolences to the families of the fishermen lost in the sinking of a trawler off the west coast of Cork the previous weekend.

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