Community's anguish at father and son's drowning

A community pledged tonight to rally around a mother and her three sons after her husband and 10-year-old boy died in a tragic quarry accident.

A community pledged tonight to rally around a mother and her three sons after her husband and 10-year-old boy died in a tragic quarry accident.

Michael Cunningham was killed in a last ditch effort to save his drowning son who had plunged 20 feet from a quarry cliff on family farmland in west Clare.

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