advertisement

Body Recovered In Search for Tipperary Man

The body of a man missing since he went swimming at a County Tipperary quarry yesterday has been recovered.

Rescuers had been searching for the man, who was in his sixties, at a slate quarry near Carrick on Suir.
 
It brings to ten, the number of people who have drowned on Irish waterways since the heat wave began. 
 
Meanwhile, man who drowned while swimming in the Strule River in County Tyrone yesterday has been named as 34 year-old James Kincaid from Newtownstewart.
 
The deaths have prompted renewed appeals for caution from safety authorities.
advertisement
advertisement
advertisement