Ennis river search stood down after two bodies located

Civil Defence volunteers from Clare and Galway joined the search on Monday and launched drones with thermal imaging cameras as part of the effort.

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Searches of a river in Co Clare for two men missing since last week, have been stood down after one body was recovered from a river in Ennis this afternoon while another was found on a beach in southwest Clare yesterday.

That body is now believed to be that of a man in his 60s reported missing from his home in Ennis on January 21st while the remains discovered this afternoon are thought to be those of a man seen in the River Fergus on Tuesday evening.