A fisherman who lost his life in a freak accident off the Cork coast earlier this week will be repatriated to Ghana.

Moses Odonkor, 53, sustained fatal injuries while working on a trawler on Monday off the Porcupine Bank near the Blasket Islands, Sundaworld.com reports.

Despite desperate efforts by his crewmates to assist him, he was pronounced dead before emergency services could be dispatched.

Following the incident, the trawler immediately returned to Castletownbere.