MAN PRONOUNCED DEAD AT UHG FOLLOWING AIR AND SEA OPERATION
Date Published: 02-Feb-2013
A man has been pronounced dead at University Hospital Galway after he was taken ashore from the waters this morning.
RNLI crew located the man close to Hare Island about a mile south of Galway docks at at around twenty past nine.
A fisherman onboard his vessel spotted the man a short time earlier and raised the alarm
The RNLI team took the casualty on board and travelled to the Galway docks where they were met by ambulance crew
It's understood the man had been in the water for at least an hour before he was recovered
Shannon Helicopter and Galway lifeboat crew were first alerted to the incident at around 8:20 this morning, following unconfirmed sightings of a person in the water
Gardaí are investigating.