Search teams find body after five-week operation

A body, believed to be that of a man, has been recovered from the Shannon Estuary following a five-week search.

At around 8.30am this morning, members of the Bunratty Search and Rescue Unit in Clare, recovered the badly decomposed body from the water close to the south bank of the estuary.

Search teams from Clare, Limerick and Cork had been looking for 40-year-old Kevin Mulqueen who has been missing from Limerick City since February 5.

The body has not been formally identified and has been removed to the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick for a postmortem examination.