It is understood the victim, who was in his 40s, was playing football with his family on Saturday when the ball went over the edge
at Cape Clear island, Co Cork.Read next: Woman arrested in Spain after she 'abandoned her child to go boozing on holiday'
However, when he failed to return, a family member raised the alarm. A search and Rescue operation was carried out involving the Irish Coast Guard helicopter Rescue 115 and Baltimore’s RNLI lifeboat.He was taken to Baltimore RNLI station where he was pronounced dead by a GP. It is understood he was from Co Cork.
It is not known if the victim died of a head injury or drowned but a postmortem will be carried out at Cork University Hospital. The coroner has been informed and a file will be prepared ahead of an inquest.In a statement Baltimore RNLI said they were requested to launch on Saturday at 8.10pm by Valentia Coast Guard, following reports that a person was in the water off Cape Clear, in West Cork.
“Both the all-weather and inshore lifeboats were launched, and a person was taken from the water and brought onboard the inshore lifeboat, by lifeboat crew. They returned to the Baltimore lifeboat station, before transferring the person into the care of emergency services.” This is the second tragedy to hit Co Cork this week. Last Sunday Polish mother-of-two Joanna Wisniowska died after she went in to the sea in East Cork in a bid to save her son who had got into difficulty.She had gone in to the water at Ballycroneen Beach in a desperate bid to save the 10-year-old who was pulled from the sea uninjured.
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