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1342 - R.I.P. - Garda Cieran Jones - Monday the 24th of October 2012. Please add any comments to this tribute.

www.rte.ie/news/2011/1025/jonesc.html

 

Search teams trying to locate missing Garda Ciaran Jones have discovered a body close to the location where he was swept into the Liffey last night.

 

The discovery was made by a local search team within the past half hour at Ballyward Bridge which is near Manor Kilbride.

 

A garda subaqua team is on its way to the scene to help retrieve the body.

 

The River Liffey was dangerously high at Ballysmuttan, near Manor Kilbride yesterday evening.

 

Garda Jones was off-duty at the time, but, it is thought, he stopped to warn motorists of the danger.

 

The bridge, which was newly-reconstructed in recent years, had previously been damaged in heavy floods.

 

Local civil defence teams began a search in the early hours of this morning and a large number of volunteers are expected to join the search today.

 

Garda Jones has been a member of the force for around four years.

 

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