Body recovered from sea during search for boy missing at Cliffs of Moher

A body has been recovered from the sea off Co Clare as the search for a missing boy resumed for a sixth day.

At around 10am today, the occupants of a pleasure craft reported seeing something in the water off the Clare coast around 2km north of Doolin from where the Garda-led search was being coordinated. The skipper of the boat immediately raised the alarm.

Watch officers at the Irish Coast Guard’s marine rescue coordination centre in Kerry alerted the Doolin unit of the service as well as the RNLI and gardaí. Doolin Coast Guard launched their Delta rigid inflatable boat (rib) while the RNLI dispatched its all-weather lifeboat based at Kilronan on Inis Mór.

On arriving at the location provided to them, Doolin Coast Guard personnel soon located a body.

With the assistance of RNLI volunteers, the remains were taken on board the Doolin Delta boat and recovered to Doolin Pier. The body was then taken to the nearby Coast Guard station. The RNLI lifeboat also travelled to Doolin with…