SEA SEARCHES CONTINUE IN GALWAY FOR MISSING STUDENT

Date Published: 26-Feb-2008

SCSea searches are continuing along the Salthill shoreline this afternoon as part of a major search for a missing student. Salthill Gardai called in the coastguard after a swimmer reported an unidentified object in the water at Blackrock at 11.35 this morning. Valentia coastguard who are co-ordinating the sea search, told Galway Bay FM news within the past half hour that following reports of an unidentified object some 70 yards from the diving board at Blackrock, they tasked Costelloe Bay Coastguard and Galway Bay lifeboat to search the area. An extensive search turned up nothing but the remains of a dead dolphin at Mutton Island however.Up to 70 people are involved in a Garda search for missing 20 year-old Michael Hughes from Longford. He disappeared while out with friends in the city last Wednesday.