Body recovered from water following search in Co Clare

Pat Flynn

The body of a man has been recovered from the water in Co Clare at the same location where another man was rescued on Thursday.

A search was mounted on Thursday night after Gardaí received a report of a man missing in the Killaloe area.

The Killaloe unit of the Irish Coast Guard was alerted at around 10.55pm and was requested to assist.

Coast Guard volunteers launched a rescue boat while others travelled to the search area by road.

After an extensive search, carried out in difficult weather conditions, a body was located beneath a jetty.

Volunteer divers from Killaloe/Ballina Search and Recovery Unit were requested to attend and recover the body.

The man’s remains were then removed to the Coast Guard station at Pier Head, Killaloe.

At around 2am, the body was transported to the mortuary at University Hospital Limerick where a post-mortem examination will take place.

Gardaí are investigating the circumstances of the incident and whether there is a connection between Thursday night’s discovery and the rescue of a man from the water in the same area on Thursday morning.

In the earlier rescue, the alarm was raised at around 8.55am when a person was reported to be in the water at the marina in the Harbour Village in Killaloe.

A person living in a nearby apartment saw the man and raised the alarm before running to his aid.

They jumped into the water and managed to grab the man, holding on to him until Killaloe Coast Guard volunteers arrived.

Both men were then assisted from the water onto the jetty.

National Ambulance Service paramedics assessed the rescued man and treated him for severe hypothermia before he was transferred to University Hospital Limerick for treatment.

At that time it was not known that a second man may have been in the water. However, it is believed the men were known to each other and had been staying on a nearby boat.

A Garda spokesperson confirmed investigations into the incidents are ongoing.