A MAN who drowned after getting into difficulty in a river in Co Tipperary earlier this week has been named locally.
Danny Kavanagh is understood to have been among a group of pals fishing in the River Suir at around 8:30pm on Tuesday when the tragedy took place.
Gardai and emergency services were alerted to the incident in the Carrick-On-Suir area at around 8:30pm and a rescue operation was launched.
Coastguard Helicopter Rescue 117 and Carrick-on-Suir River Rescue were among those involved in the search to recover Kavanagh’s body.
Inland Fisheries Ireland officers also attended the scene.
Kavanagh’s body was recovered from the river hours after the search operation was launched and the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
In a statement, a garda spokesperson said: “Gardai were alerted to an incident where a male encountered difficulty in the water in Carrick-On-Suir, Co Tipperary on Tuesday 1st July 2025 at approximately 8:30pm.
“His body has since been recovered from the river.
“He was pronounced deceased at the scene.
“Investigations are ongoing.”
Separately, a teenage boy who died in a fatal fall while on holidays with his parents in Kerry has been named.
Darragh Byrne, 16, from Charleville, Co Cork, was killed instantly on Tuesday when he fell at a lake close to Daingean Ui Chuis in the west Kerry Gaeltacht of Corca Dhuibhne near the Conor Pass.
The 16-year-old was a student in the Christian Brothers Secondary School in Charleville.
Darragh had travelled to Kerry on holidays with his parents, James and Siobhan, and is believed to have been an only child.
He went exploring an area with a waterfall close to Pedlars Lake at Conor Pass, near Dingle.
When he failed to return, his parents raised the alarm at around 3pm.
‘HEAVY HEART’
Emergency services, including 30 members of Dingle Coast Guard and the Kerry Mountain Action Team, immediately responded along with the Coast Guard Rescue Helicopter 115, ambulance service and Gardai.
The boy was found close to the bottom of the waterfall and it is believed he may have climbed up to the lake, slipped and plunged to his death.
He was pronounced dead at the scene and his body was taken to University Hospital Kerry for a post-mortem examination.
Gerry Christie of Kerry Mountain Rescue Team, told Radio Kerry: “I’m speaking with a heavy heart today but how heavy are the hearts of his parents. He was well on the way to being a man – a man sadly he now will never be.
“One can only assume that somehow he slipped on a beautiful afternoon in Kerry. It puts it into context how precious life can be.
“I did speak briefly to his parents when I came down but I need to extend my condolences and that of all of Kerry Mountain Rescue Team, and indeed all of Kerry. It’s so sad.”
