'Like a circus': Cork mother heartbroken after son’s tragic death is filmed by onlookers

Elizabeth Hyde says she is 'disgusted' that onlookers recorded her son Luke’s death instead of trying to help save him
'Like a circus': Cork mother heartbroken after son’s tragic death is filmed by onlookers

Luke Hyde drowned in the River Lee on Thursday. File picture

The devastated mother of a man who died in a drowning tragedy in Cork City has hit out at the people who filmed the incident. 

Elizabeth Hyde's son Luke, who was 34, died on Wednesday after getting into difficulty in the Pope's Quay area of the River Lee. 

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