The “heroic and inspirational” traits of swimmer Páraic Casey who died while attempting to cross the English Channel for charity were remembered at his requiem Mass over the weekend.

The two charities Páraic Casey was raising funds for by swimming the English Channel for have seen donations swell by thousands of euro in the aftermath of his death.

A postmortem is expected to be carried out in France today on the body of an Irishman who died while swimming the English channel.

Exactly a week after Steve Redmond’s Oceans Seven world-record feat the country’s swimming fraternity is in mourning after another Corkman died while crossing the English Channel.

Ireland’s swimming community is in mourning after a Corkman died while crossing the English Channel, one week after Steve Redmond’s Oceans Seven world-record feat.