It is believed the man in his 50s went pollock fishing from Castletownbere last night.

Funeral arrangements will be announced at a later date.

The incident occurred at about 4:30 pm on Saturday. The emergency services were contacted.

Castletownbere RNLI lifeboat ‘Annette Hutton’ was paged at 2:58pm and launched minutes later under the command of deputy coxswain Sean Bawn O’Sullivan with mechanic Donagh Murphy and coxswain Joe O’Sullivan, crew Joe Cronin, Seamus Harrington, Dave O’Donovan, and William O’Driscoll.

The Irish Coast Guard carried out an urgent long-range medical evacuation of a crew member from a container ship on Tuesday afternoon.