19/03/2019

Gardaí Find Body In Search For Missing Belfast Woman

A body has been recovered from the water in Carlingford, County Louth in the search for a woman missing from Northern Ireland.

30-year-old Ruth Maguire went missing from a hen party at around 11.30pm on Saturday evening, 16 March.

A major search party was launched after the rest of the party were unable to find her, but Gardaí confirmed on Monday afternoon that a body believed to be Ms Maguire had been found in the water in Carlingford Lough.

A post-mortem will be carried out but officers are treating it as a tragic event.

The search was later called off.



(JG)

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