Tests to be carried out on drowning victims

Post-mortem examinations are due to be carried out today on the bodies of two people who died in separate drownings.

A 19-year-old man died in the sea at Lahinch, Co Clare, after going for an early morning swim yesterday.

The Dubliner’s body was recovered last night after a day-long search and removed to the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick.

An English woman, in her 50s, also died yesterday after diving with her husband and a number of other people off the Maherees, near Castlegregory, in west Kerry.

The woman’s body was taken to Kerry General Hospital in Tralee.

The incident follows the death of Police Constable Paul Jackson, who went missing following a dive at Horn Head off the Co Donegal coast last weekend.

The 49-year-old, who served with Humberside Police in England, was on holiday in Donegal with friends.