The body of a man - missing since he went swimming at a quarry in Tipperary yesterday - has been recovered this morning.

Rescuers had been searching for the man - who was in his sixties - since he was last seen at the quarry at Ahenny, near Carrick-on-Suir, yesterday evening.

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It brings to ten, the number of people who have drowned on Irish waterways since the heatwave began.

Fergus Cooney of the Irish Coastguard is appealing for vigilance around our seas and waterways.