Coroner warns over dogs on boats

Bringing dogs onto small open boats can be extremely dangerous, a coroner has warned.

South Kerry coroner Terence Casey also urged people to always wear lifejackets, even for short distances, at the inquest into the death of a 55-year-old man who drowned in Kenmare Bay.

William Topham, a married father of three and electrician, had set out on a duck-shooting expedition with a companion in an open Canadian canoe in Kenmare Bay on January 31, the last day of the shooting season