GARDA INVESTIGATION AS MAN’S BODY RECOVERED OFF BARNA COAST

Date Published: 24-Jan-2013

Gardai are investigating after a man’s body was recovered from the sea off the coast of Barna this afternoon.

A search was launched by the Galway RNLI Lifeboat and the Irish Coastguard Helicopter earlier today, after a man was reported missing.

The alarm was first raised by a friend of the missing man, who was last seen on Barna beach yesterday.

At around half two this afternoon, the body of a man was recovered from the sea two miles west of Barna.

His remains have been taken to Galway University Hospital for a post mortem examination.

Gardai at Salthill are investigating.