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Search For Missing Person Off Howth Suspended

19th October 2013
Search For Missing Person Off Howth Suspended

#Missing - RTÉ News reports that an air and sea search and rescue operation to locate a missing person off Howth in North Dublin has been suspended.

According to the Howth Coast Guard, rescue crews including the Howth RNLI inshore lifeboat and Irish Coast Guard helicopter Rescue 116 were tasked immediately upon reports from several witnesses of a person entering the water at Balscadden Beach east of Howth village around 7pm last night (Friday 18 October).

The search was called off late last night as conditions deteriorated on scene, and resumed at 5.30am this morning, but appears to have been stood down around 10am, as BreakingNews.ie reports.

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MacDara Conroy

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