Body of missing backpacker found in Chile

The body of missing Irish backpacker Ronan Lawlor has reportedly been discovered in South America.

Reports this morning say the Department of Foreign Affairs has informed Mr Lawlor's family that a body believed to be that of the 28-year-old has been recovered by Chilean police.

Mr Lawlor disappeared on November 18 while hiking in the Torres del Paine national park on the Argentina-Chile border.

A massive search was launched, but it was called off just before Christmas amid fears that he had drowned.