The body of a man has been recovered from the sea in Co Clare.
The body is that of a man in his early 30s from Co Tipperary. A woman walking along the cliff at Chimney Bay, just north of Kilkee Bay, spotted the body floating face down in the water at about 4.00pm yesterday.
The alarm was raised and the Irish Coast Guard centre at Valentia Island in Co Kerry quickly mounted a search and recovery operation.
Kilkee Marine Rescue Service was alerted and sent crews by land and sea to the scene. Their volunteers quickly located the body, with the assistance of people on the cliffs, and removed the remains to their own base at Kilkee Pier.
A local doctor pronounced the victim dead before the body was removed to the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick.
It is understood the incident is being treated as a personal tragedy.