'I couldn’t hold him anymore': Friends made 'valiant' efforts to save two boys who drowned in Clare quarry

Friends of two 15-year-old promising rugby players who drowned while swimming in a disused quarry in Co Clare last summer told gardaí they desperately tried to save the pair but failed after tiredness overcame them.

Details of the tragedy were heard at the victim’s inquest today at Limerick Coroner’s Court.