Busiest year ever for Cliffs of Moher jumpers

By Jem Casey on December 3, 2008 8:12 PM | 0 Comments
Doolin Coast Guard unit - which covers the north Clare coastline - said that 2008 has been its busiest ever year with 43 callouts. Six bodies were recovered, four off the Cliffs of Moher.
A coroner returned an "open verdict" on the death of a Czech national who fell off the 182m (600ft) high Cliffs of Moher in Co Clare last April. The inquest is one of three being held in Ennis this week into the deaths in falls from the Cliffs of Moher on different dates this year.

The the man returned to his Irish home from the Czech Republic on April 4th and the next morning, he drove from his house in Mullingar to the Cliffs of Moher without telling anyone where he was going. The alarm was raised on April 9th when a member of the Doolin Coast Guard unit, Thomas Doherty, spotted that a car had been parked overnight in the car park.

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