Extensive searches for a missing Wicklow man and a Cork fisherman continued yesterday.
Gardaí are seeking the public's help to trace 41-year-old Mr Raymond Molloy, from Rathattin, Hollywood, Co Wicklow, who has not been seen since he went to bed on Saturday night at 11 p.m. He lives with his parents and brothers at the Rathattin Garden Centre on the Blessington-Baltinglass road.
Thirty-give gardaí from the Wicklow, Nass and Baltinglass areas carried out extensive searches yesterday.
Mr Molloy is described as 5 feet 11 inches, 19 stone, and with brown receding hair. He speaks with a Wicklow accent and is believed to be dressed casually. Volunteers from the Dublin-Wicklow and Glen of Imaal mountain rescue teams also launched a search on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the search continued yesterday off the Cork coast for a fisherman who has been missing since Tuesday morning.
Naval divers joined the extensive sea, air and land searches for the man yesterday evening.
The alarm was raised when the fisherman, who left Schull Harbour on Tuesday morning in a 21-foot half decker boat, failed to return home in the evening. His boat was later found off Calf Island.
Searches last night focused on Goat Island, off Schull, where the fisherman kept lobster pots.