Search for body in sea continues

THE coastguard and Ballybunion Sea and Cliff Rescue yesterday continued their search for the body of a 33-year-old man who jumped to his death from the cliffs at the north Kerry seaside resort on Tuesday night.

Stephen Goodson-Ukiwo, from Benin, in west Africa, was found on the cliff-top a short time after the body of his partner, Polish woman Katarzyna Bartkowiak, 27, was found at their rented house in Tralee.

Garda negotiators had spent up to six hours trying to dissuade him from leaping about 50 metres into the sea.