A search operation is under way off Connemara for a sailor reported missing after attempting to retrieve a small dinghy, as RTÉ News reports.
A mayday call was issued from Oileán Máisean, off Carna, before 6pm on Thursday evening (6 June) and RNLI volunteers from Clifden and the Aran Islands have been tasked to the scene.
Local reports suggest the missing man is a well-known member of Foynes Yacht Club, who is understood to have swum out after the dinghy when it came detached from the yacht he was sailing with a companion.
RTÉ News has more on the story HERE.