The body of a young father, missing for five days after he embarked on a kayaking adventure has been recovered from a lake near his home at Cromane, Co Kerry.

The family of a young father who went missing while kayaking near his home five days ago have said it is impossible to find words to describe the dreadful sense of loss they are experiencing.

An increasingly desperate search for a father-of-one who went missing while kayaking on a lake in Kerry on Friday morning continued over the weekend.