Postmortems due on drowning victims

Postmortems are due today on the bodies of two people who died in separate drownings.

Postmortems are due today on the bodies of two people who died in separate drownings.

A 19-year-old man died in the sea at Lahinch, Co Clare, after going for an early morning swim yesterday.

The Dubliner's body was recovered last night after a day-long search and removed to the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick.

An English woman, in her 50s, also died yesterday after diving with her husband and a number of other people off the Maherees, near Castlegregory, in west Kerry.

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The woman's body was taken to Kerry General Hospital in Tralee.

Last weekend, policeman Paul Jackson (49) went missing following a dive at Horn Head off the Co Donegal coast. He was on holiday in Donegal with friends.