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Search for fisherman stood down

Rescue services - Boats and a helicopter are searched for missing fisherman
Rescue services - Boats and a helicopter are searched for missing fisherman

The search for John Ennis, a fisherman who's been missing since a boat sank off the south Wexford coast, has been called off for the evening.

It will resume at first light tomorrow.

A second fisherman on board managed to make it ashore and raise the alarm this morning

Mr Ennis is understood to be a father-of-four from Ballyhack.

The skipper of the vessel, Richard McNamara, managed to get ashore and raise the alarm shortly after midday.

The boat, called Na Buachailli, was found this afternoon in six meters of water off the coastline between Duncannon and Arthurstown. It is from Ballyhack.