A 53-year-old man, who regularly went for an early morning swim, lost his life yesterday when he got into difficulties off Co Waterford.
The man - who has been named locally as Jerry Power, Garraunbane, Dungarvan - was spotted in the sea off Clonea Strand at 7am by a passer-by.
The woman raised the alarm and gardaí contacted Helvic Head lifeboat which recovered Mr Power's body.
The body of a Co Tipperary man missing since last Saturday has been recovered from Lough Derg after a six-day search.
Thomas Dalton (32), Ballingarry, fell overboard from a passenger boat two miles north of Killaloe, Co Clare, last Saturday evening.
Mr Dalton was not wearing a lifejacket.
A search and recovery operation continued all week, and at 7.15am yesterday members of the Killaloe-Ballina Search and Rescue Unit spotted Mr Dalton's body on the surface of the water near the Tipperary shore of the lake at Ryninch, close to where he fell into the water.
Mr Dalton's body was brought to the Midwestern Regional Hospital in Limerick for a post-mortem.
The search of Lough Derg was one of the largest in recent years.
Over 100 people took part and the search involved a helicopter.