Man shouted ‘Goodbye brother, I love you’

A Clare man shouted “goodbye brother, I love you” after watching him disappear into the water in Poulnasherry Bay off the Clare coast in April.

An inquest in Ennis heard yesterday that Alan Mahoney called out after watching his brother, Bernard, 39, from Moveen, Kilkee, go under the water after a desperate attempt to try to make it to shore to raise help for three men stranded on two tractors.

Father of three Bernard, had been due to attend the christening of his youngest son later that day, April 19.