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BreakingNews.ie
11-05-2025
- BreakingNews.ie
Second teenager dies following swimming incident off Donegal coast
A second young man has died following a swimming tragedy off Co Donegal yesterday. It follows an incident off the Inishowen Peninsula yesterday afternoon that sparked a huge search and rescue mission. Advertisement Three young men aged between 16 and 19 years old got into difficulty off the Inishowen town of Buncrana at around 4pm. The alert was raised by a passer-by which sparked a massive sea operation involving both volunteers and members of the emergency services. One of the men managed to swim to shore while another was later plucked from the water but a third could not be found. The body of the third man was recovered from the water between an area known as Ned's Point and Fahan around 9pm last night. Advertisement The second man taken from the sea by rescuers and rushed to Letterkenny University Hospital. However, he has since passed away overnight despite the best efforts of medics to save his life. A third man is understood to be in a comfortable condition in hospital. Two RNLI lifeboats were assisted by teams from Mulroy and Greencastle coastguard units with further help by up to a dozen local yachts. The multi-agency search included the Rescue 118 helicopter from Sligo along with the RNLI lifeboat from Buncrana and a number of local yachts. Prayers were said at local masses this morning for three young men and their families. Local county councillor Jack Murray said there were no words to describe how the community in Buncrana felt following the tragedy. He praised the work of local volunteers as well as all of the emergency services who assisted in the search and rescue operation. He said 'Our emergency services have once again demonstrated courage and professionalism in unthinkable circumstances. "We have been hit with so many tragedies and horrendous events in this area. Each time the emergency services are called upon, they stand up without fail.'
Irish Times
11-05-2025
- Irish Times
Second teenager dies after incident while swimming off Donegal coast
A second teenager has died following a swimming incident in Co Donegal on Saturday. A search and rescue mission was mounted off the Inishowen Peninsula on Saturday afternoon when three teenagers aged between 16 and 19 got into difficulty in the sea at about 4pm. The alert was raised by a passer-by, sparking a sea rescue operation involving both volunteers and members of the emergency services. One of the teenagers managed to swim to shore while another was later taken from the water. READ MORE The third young man could not be found. His body was later recovered from the water between an area known as Ned's Point and Fahan at about 9pm on Saturday night. The second teenager taken from the sea by rescuers and rushed to Letterkenny University Hospital where he was later pronounced dead. A third man is understood to be in hospital. Two RNLI lifeboats were assisted by teams from Mulroy and Greencastle coastguard units with further help by up to a dozen local yachts. The multi-agency search included the Rescue 118 helicopter from Sligo along with the RNLI lifeboat from Buncrana and a number of local yachts. Prayers were said at local masses this morning for three young men and their families. Local county councillor Jack Murray said there were no words to describe how the community in Buncrana felt following the tragedy. He praised the work of local volunteers as well as all of the emergency services who assisted in the search and rescue operation. He said 'Our emergency services have once again demonstrated courage and professionalism in unthinkable circumstances. 'We have been hit with so many tragedies and horrendous events in this area. Each time the emergency services are called upon, they stand up without fail.'
Irish Examiner
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
Book review: Irish slow-burn mystery grips
In her Inishowen mysteries, Andrea Carter used a slow pace and Agatha Christie flourishes to investigate a series of polite murders in rural Donegal. Very elegant they were too, but in this, her first standalone novel, she moves closer to home. Ms Carter grew up in Ballyfin, Co Laois, and the Slieve Bloom mountains form an atmospheric backdrop to this eerie tale of trauma and absence. Legal executive Allie Garvey lives in Dublin with her boyfriend Rory O'Riordan, a documentary-maker some 12 years her senior. He's been down in Galway shooting a film, and Allie is perplexed when he fails to return home. After an anxious couple of days, she phones the police and a missing persons file is opened. Rory was caught on CCTV using a toll in Ballinasloe, but thereafter vanished without a trace, leaving Allie and his family to fear the worst. She's trying to digest this news when a Polish couple arrive at her apartment claiming Rory had leased it out to them. She then finds out from Rory's solicitor that he has bought a rundown cottage in the Slieve Blooms: Evicted from her home and seeing no alternative, Allie moves to Co Laois. Raven Cottage has been vacant for several years, the previous tenants having left in a hurry. Locals say it's haunted, and Allie is initially spooked by a tribe of ravens that watch her from the trees. At night time, she wakes at all hours convinced she's not alone, and is intrigued when she discovers that a supposed spirit medium called Eliza Dunne lived there in the 1890s. In the local town, she befriends a cafe owner called Maggie, who turns out to be Eliza Dunne's great great granddaughter. At the cottage, meanwhile, nocturnal happenings intensify, and then Allie is hit by another blow: Rory's car is found submerged off the end of a Mayo pier, and there's a body inside. There Came a Tapping is told from two points of view, Allie's narration interrupted now and then by the more measured perspective of investigating Garda Suzanne Phelan, who quickly realises that Allie may not be a reliable witness. She drinks wine in the afternoons, lives on her nerves, and is haunted by a car accident which killed her parents when she was in her teens. Might Allie have killed Rory, Suzanne's partner Dave — a tubby misogynist — wonders aloud? It seems unlikely: Rory was having money problems, and may not have been the perfect boyfriend he seemed. Andrea Carter fleshes out her plot with supernatural elements and a kind of mystery within a mystery concerning Eliza Dunne, whose disappearance may also have been suspicious. Her primary ambition here is to take us inside the mind of a woman short on confidence and plagued by misplaced guilt. She does so reasonably well, and through the clumsy but well-intentioned interventions of her sister Olivia, we discover that Allie has endured a subtly controlling relationship. The supernatural elements are nicely handled, leaving Allie's experiences open to interpretation — in fact I think I wanted more of them. But the plot sags a little in the middle, as Allie frets and not a lot happens. Descriptive evocations of natural surroundings can greatly enhance dramatic tension, but here they are perhaps too perfunctory, and while a dramatic late plot twist is well concealed, I'm not entirely sure I bought it. Still, Allie is an engaging protagonist, and the book's slow mystery kept me engaged until the very end.
