The body of a man was recovered from a lake in East Clare on Tuesday afternoon.
Emergency services were alerted to a report of a person in the water at Roslara Lake between Tulla and Feakle. It’s understood the body was spotted by a group of young people who had gone swimming there.
The Killaloe unit of the Irish Coast Guard; Clare County Fire and Rescue Service crews from Scariff station were tasked to the incident along with National Ambulance Service paramedics and Gardaí.
The man’s body was located and recovered from the water by fire service personnel. It’s thought that the man in his 60s had been fishing alone at the time of the tragedy.
The body was later removed to University Hospital Limerick where a post-mortem examination will be carried out.
The incident is being treated as a tragic accident.
