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Tue 01 Jan 2007Fishing community unites with families of lost trawlermenA Co Cork community which has experienced its own tragedies at sea and which has ties to the missing crews of both the Pére Charlesand the Honeydew IIunited last night in a show of solidarity with the grieving families of those lost in the past week.Among the many people who attended the special Mass for missing fishermen and their families at the Star of the Sea Church in Ballycotton were the family of local fisherman Glynn Cott, who was lost with his crewman Jan Sankowski when their boat the Maggie Bwent down last year.