Garda drowns in Co Clare fishing accident

angelfire9

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0825/martina.html

A garda has drowned after falling from a rock while fishing for mackerel along the coast near Kilkee in Co Clare.


A 46-year-old garda drowned after falling from a rock while fishing for mackerel along the coast near Kilkee in Co Clare.
The incident happened after 1pm when the man was fishing with his young son at Dunlicky.
The man's body was recovered soon afterwards.
The body will be removed to the Mid Western Regional Hospital in Limerick for a post mortem examination.

Very sad for the family involved and his colleagues in Clones

AN OFF-DUTY garda officer died in tragic circumstances in Co Clare yesterday afternoon.
It is understood the 46-year-old man from Carrickmacross in Co Monaghan, who has been named locally as Adrian Martin, died in tragic circumstances when he fell off a cliff while out fishing with his six-year-old son.
The pair had been fishing from a 75-foot cliff near Kilkee when the alarm was raised shortly after 1pm, it is reported in today’s Irish Times, which adds that it is believed the victim’s fishing line had snagged on the cliff face and he had tried to reach out to free it before falling.
The six-year-old boy almost fell off the cliff himself after looking around to find his father but was saved by another angler nearby, the Irish Independent reports.
Martin’s wife Helen, who had been staying at a holiday apartment nearby, formally identified her husband, the paper adds.
The Irish Daily Mirror quotes a colleague of his at the garda station in Clones, Co Monaghan where Martin worked as saying: “We cannot believe this happened to him.”

nutts_77

R.I.P. Adrian.

goldie fish

R.I.P.

Sempai

Tragic news. He'll be missed in Cluain Eois!

Xplor.er

R.I.P Adrian, sadly missed by all of us in clones