Drowning victim named

The Connemara boy who was drowned in a lake on Thursday night has been named as Martin Devane (12), of Carna, Co Galway

The Connemara boy who was drowned in a lake on Thursday night has been named as Martin Devane (12), of Carna, Co Galway. The boy's body was recovered shortly before midnight some hours after he fell from a makeshift raft into Lough Trosan near Carna.

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