A body has been recovered in the search for a boy who's been missing from the Cliffs of Moher since Tuesday.
An alert was raised shortly after 10 am this morning, that a body had been sighted in the water off the County Clare coast.
Coast Guard and RNLI teams arrived quickly at the scene, where a body has since been retrieved and taken to University Hospital Limerick, for formal identification and a post-mortem examination.
In a statement, the Department of Transport said, "Today, a fishing vessel reported sighting a body at sea between Doolin and the Aran Islands, to the Coast Guard Rescue Coordination Centre in Valentia.
"Volunteers from the Doolin Coast Guard Unit boat team assisted by the Aran Islands RNLI located and recovered the body, which was subsequently transferred to An Garda Siochána.
"The search around the Cliffs of Moher and surrounding sea areas has now been suspended.
"The Irish Coast Guard thanks the volunteer Coast Guard Units from Doolin, Cleggan, Inisheer, Costelloe Bay, Killaloe, Aran Islands lifeboat, Coast Guard helicopter R115 and the member of the Civil Defence who participated in the search efforts since the 24th of July.
"The Coast Guard extends their condolences to the family and friends of the deceased."
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