Gardaí appeal for information after woman drowns in river

GARDAÍ were last night continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the drowning of a 54-year-old mother of four in Cork’s River Lee.

Marion O’Leary, a resident of the Simon Community in Cork, is believed to have drowned in the river sometime during the early hours of yesterday morning.

Gardaí received a call at about 4am yesterday morning saying that Ms O’Leary had gone into the river. The gardaí sealed off the areas around Kennedy Quay and Albert Quay, opposite the Clarion Hotel.