The Irish Coast Guard and RNLI have successfully completed an operation to recover a body from the shoreline in North Clare this afternoon.
The body was located at the base of the cliffs on Friday evening during a search being conducted by the Coast Guard drone team. The body has not been formally identified.
The Aran Islands RNLI lifeboat was requested to assist Doolin Coast Guard with the recovery operation however that effort had to be abandoned due to deteriorating weather conditions last night.
Early today, RNLI and Irish Coast Guard boat crews returned to the scene and successfully recovered a body in an operation that lasted several hours and carried out in difficult conditions.
The body was recovered to the RNLI lifeboat and transported back to Doolin Pier where Coast Guard personnel and Gardaí were standing by.
The body was later removed to University Hospital Limerick where a postmortem examination will be carried out. It’s understood however that the death is being treated as a personal tragedy.
A Garda spokesperson confirmed: “Gardaí and the Coast Guard were alerted after the body of an adult male was recovered on the coastline at the Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare at around 1:30pm today, 27th June 2026.”
The deceased was brought to shore and removed to the mortuary at University Hospital Limerick. The local Coroner has been notified, and a post-mortem will be arranged. The outcome of the post-mortem will determine the course of the Garda investigation.”
