‘It happened at the wrong end’

A FORMER GAA county minor footballer who drowned while trying to save a group of revellers in a Cavan lake had completed lifesaving courses in the waterway where he died.

However, while he was an accomplished swimmer, locals said Simon Delaney’s heroics tragically occurred at the “wrong end” of Gallon Lough, in a section which was treacherous due to its thick mud.

Mr Delaney and Dubliner Matthew Gibbons both drowned on Wednesday night after going to the rescue of six people who had been jumping and swimming from a small boat.