Life-jackets ‘would have increased rescue chances’

ATTEMPTS to rescue two men who drowned, in separate tragedies, were thwarted because neither had been wearing life-jackets at the time, according to inquiries conducted by the Marine Casualty Investigation Board.

Kenneth Carney from Co Louth died when he fell overboard and had been unable to steady himself because he had wrapped himself in a blanket.

He had been travelling across Lough Sheelin, Co Cavan on August 1, 2004, with his friends when they started rolling the boat and he fell into the water.