AT THE Cliffs of Moher yesterday Coast Guard volunteers abseiled almost half way down the cliff face to recover the body of a woman.
After a seven-hour operation the body of the 36-year-old woman from Co Limerick was found on a ledge at the cliffs.
The search was launched after her car was found abandoned at the popular tourist site in north Clare.
It took over 1½ hours for up to 30 volunteers to prepare their equipment for the recovery operation.
Two volunteers abseiled down the cliff face to a dangerously sloped grass ledge where they located the body.
They spent an hour securing the body in a stretcher before it could be hoisted to the cliff top.
The woman had gone missing from her home on Sunday night and it was feared that she had travelled to north Clare.
Gardaí at Ennistymon are treating the death as a “personal tragedy”.