Body discovered in search for missing Galway swimmer

The Shannon-based Irish Coast Guard helicopter, Rescue 115, hovers over the area where the body was found. Picture: Media West (Ireland)

Rescue crews searching for a swimmer missing in Galway for over a week have discovered a body on the shoreline a couple of hundred metres away from where she went missing.

The search for Máire Ní Fhátharta from Spiddal is one of the largest undertaken in the area and it was just about to be stood down ahead of a status red weather alert when the body was discovered.