Body seen in water by occupants of pleasure craft at about 10am
A body recovered from the sea off Co Clare has been confirmed to be the boy who went missing at the Cliffs of Moher on Tuesday.
The body has been removed by hearse to University Hospital Limerick where a postmortem examination carried out. That initial search involved the Irish Coast Guard’s Doolin unit, the Aran Islands RNLI all-weather lifeboat, Rescue 115 and gardaí. On Wednesday morning, Clare Civil Defence dispatched members of their unmanned aerial vehicle team to launch a drone.
During the week, Civil Defence teams from Cork North, Cork West and Kerry dispatched drone teams to assist in the operation. Further Civil Defence teams from Laois and Wicklow joined the search effort while another unit from Dublin was due to travel to Clare on Sunday.
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