A man has died after the car he was in went into the water at Howth Harbour on Sunday morning, The Irish Times reports.

Members of the public alerted the Irish Coast Guard after seeing the car driving onto the west pier.

Despite a rapid response from the coastguard and Howth RNLI lifeboat, a search of the surface showed no sign of the car.

Garda divers later made the grim discovery and recovered the man's body.