VIDEO: Baltimore Drownings - Community in shock at popular family’s tragedy

The shockwaves from Tuesday’s tragedy have reverberated around the Baltimore area, where Barry Ryan’s wife, Ann Davis, is from and where the family have lived for the past two decades.

It was also felt at the headquarters of Penneys in Dublin where Mr Ryan — a son of Penneys founder Arthur Ryan — had worked as an executive, travelling from the family home at Lackahane, two miles outside Baltimore and spending much of the week in the capital.

His son, Barry Davis Ryan, had just completed the first year of his BA in Engineering at Cork Institute of Technology, but was working in Penneys in Cork, as was his girlfriend, Niamh O’Connor.