Body found may be missing man

GARDAÍ believe the body of a man recovered from a river in county Wexford early yesterday is that of a young man who has been missing since before Christmas.

The remains recovered from the River Barrow in New Ross yesterday are believed to be those of Mark Grace, (23), a single man from Windmill Lane, New Ross. A major search and rescue operation was launched when he went missing before Christmas.

The youth was last seen at 9.30pm on December 14, last year. Mark Grace was very well-known in New Ross and in Wexford town where he worked as a coal delivery man.