Tributes are being paid to a young man who died in a surfing incident in West Clare.
The 20-year-old, who’s a student and lifeguard during the summer, has been named locally as Fionn O’Brien from the Tulla Road in Ennis.
It’s understood he got into difficulty while surfing in Lough Donnell, Quilty yesterday morning and was airlifted to University Hospital Limerick, where he was later pronounced dead.
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The Staff and Board of Management of Rice College have described Fionn as a wonderful, smiling and talented young man, who will be sorely missed by all who knew him.
Fionn was an avid footballer and hurler for St. Joseph’s Doora Barefield and Chairman of the club, Robert Hurley, says they are devastated at the loss of one of their members.
