‘Finding the body now means we can have closure’

AT a deserted inlet at West Cork’s Owenahincha Beach yesterday afternoon, five-year-old Niamh Twomey laid a make-shift cross at the spot where the body of Jonathan Herlihy was found hours earlier.

Her father, Gerard Twomey, was a friend of Peter O’Keeffe, the other man who drowned during the rescue of two bathers in treacherous waters a week ago.

Accompanying Niamh was her grandfather, Liam O’Shea, of Ballincollig, Co Cork, who said: “It is very sad but at least there’s closure. I feel very sorry for the parents involved. It must have been traumatic.