Teenagers drowned ‘in attempt to cool off’

TWO teenagers who drowned in Dublin’s Grand Canal during a night out with friends were intoxicated with ecstasy and cocaine and had gone swimming to cool down, an inquest heard yesterday.

David White, 18, of Carrigmore Avenue, City West, Saggart and Shane Coughlan, 18, of Mill Park, Clondalkin, were reported missing on February 25, 2007, when they failed to return from a trip to a petrol station to buy cigarettes and mobile phone credit in the early hours of the morning.

Shane Coughlan’s fully clothed body was recovered from the Grand Canal three days later by a Garda water unit who were conducting an underwater search for the two youths.