Search for man missing on Lough Ree called off for night - two hospitalised

Search efforts to locate a man missing in Lough Ree, Co Westmeath have been called off for the night after an incident involving three men earlier.

A search operation involving the local lifeboat, the Sligo coastguard helicopter and Athlone Sub Aqua Club was launched at around 3pm today when three men, believed to be from the North, who were on the lake in a small boat went missing in the Hodson Bay area.