Man Dies in Boat Capsize Off Connemara Coast

17th May 2026

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Two Irish Coast Guard helicopters were tasked to the scene at Ceann Mhása Credit: via RTE

The body of a young man has been recovered from the Connemara coast after a boat capsized in the early hours of Saturday morning.

RTÉ News reports that the alarm was raised about 2.50am on Saturday, with information that three men were in the water at Ceann Mhása.

Two of the men managed to make it ashore, and the body of a third man was later recovered from the water.

The Irish Coast Guard rescue helicopters R115 and R117 from Shannon and Waterford were tasked to the scene, along with the RNLI Oileáin Árainn lifeboat and Irish Coast Guard units from Clifden, Cuan Chasla and Cleggan.

RTÉ says that one of the men who swam ashore is reported to be the son of a local woman from Carna who lives with her family in Norway.

It is understood the three men in their thirties were visiting the area from Norway, and were returning from Roundstone, Co Galway on Friday night/Saturday morning when their boat capsized.

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