A body has been recovered from the sea off the Clare coast.
The alarm was raised at around 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon, when a body was spotted in the water about two kilometres south of O’Brien’s Tower at the Cliffs of Moher.
A multi-agency operation was mounted by the Irish Coast Guard yesterday afternoon, after being contacted by local Gardaí.
The Doolin unit of the Irish Coast Guard was tasked along with the Shannon-based search and rescue helicopter and the Aran Islands RNLI lifeboat from Inis Mór.
The Doolin Coast Guard and RNLI boats proceeded to the area where, at around 4 o’clock, a body was located and taken from the water by the crew of the Aran Islands lifeboat.
The body was subsequently transferred to the Doolin Coast Guard boat and taken ashore at Doolin pier.
The casualty, understood to be a woman in her 40s, was formally pronounced dead before her remains were transported to University Hospital Limerick, where a post-mortem examination will take place later.
The death is being treated as a personal tragedy.
