Seven crewmen from a Castletownbere-based trawler, 'The Discovery', have been rescued 177km southeast of Mizen Head after their fishing vessel sank earlier today.
The seven have now been airlifted to Cornwall where one is being treated for hypothermia.
Just after 11am this morning the Falmouth Coast Guard on the south coast of England received an EPIRB alert from the trawler.
The 77ft trawler had sunk 257km west of the Scilly Isles.
The Irish skipper and his crew of two Poles, one Latvian, one Lithuanian, one Portugese national and another Irish man were spotted in a liferaft by the CASA Irish fishing patrol plane.
They were picked up by a merchant ship, the Front Commander, which was on its way to Rotterdam at the time. The seven were winched on board a UK rescue helicopter.
