This video is an RTÉ documentary called Disasters from 2007. See link to the programme: RTE’s Disasters Documentary

For many communities dotted along the Donegal coastline, fishing was their life’s blood. With limited employment, the young men who grew up in this tiny corner of Ireland were destined for a life at sea. But it wasn’t just about the money. Fishing was the common bond between communities. In places like Killybegs and Burtonport little else was talked about.

RTÉ’s Television Archive Unit looks at the lives of those affected by a litany of trawler disasters that hit the community hard in the mid-seventies and early eighties. It focuses on three trawler disasters in particular: the Evelyn Marie in 1975, the Carraig Una in 1976 and the Skifjord in 1981. Altogether sixteen lives lost at sea while trying to provide for their families.

The archived footage on the Carraig Una disaster can be seen in full in Joe Mulholland’s award-winning documentary titled ‘Lost at Sea’. Click the link to view: Lost at Sea.