Tragic siblings were swept away by Ballybunion's riptide 

Dessie Byrne and Muriel Eriksson who died following a tragic accident in Ballybunion

Carpenter Dessie Byrne desperately tried to save his beloved sister’s life after she was swept out to sea by a deadly riptide current.

His teenage son Josh is understood to have spotted his aunt Muriel Eriksson frantically waving her arms, out some distance from the Kerry beach.