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Massive search off Howth coast after reports of person in trouble

Over 40 people were involved in the search effort.

EMERGENCY SERVICES TOOK part in a large-scale search last night after receiving reports of a person in difficulty off the coast of Howth, Co Dublin.

A passerby contacted the Coast Guard after he reported witnessing a person in difficulty in the water near Sutton Dingy Club at 11pm last night.

A Coast Guard helicopter, a Coast Guard search team from Howth, the RNLI inshore lifeboats from Howth and Dún Laoghaire and local gardaí responded to the call and began search efforts.

The search, involving over 40 personnel, was carried out across the area with particular focus on a stretch between Dollymount Beach and Sutton.

Search teams returned for a low water search this morning at 3.30am. Coast Guard personnel searched the shallow waters in the area where the person was last seen.

The team was stood down at 5.30am this morning, and resumed again at 4pm.

Gardaí are investigating further.

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Read: ‘I was thinking I was going to die’ – Surfer rescued by Belfast Coast Guard after 32 hours at sea

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    Mute Dragutin Cvetković
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    Nov 29th 2012, 10:16 AM

    Is this the guy that openly admitted that he murdered policemen, Serbs, Albanians that did not cooperate, etc? The guy who had something like 18 witnesses against him, out of which 16 all of a sudden caught a terminal case of death? :)

    This Hague tribunal is becoming more and more like a Muppet Show. The only difference is that real people, with real families, real victims are suffering for the past 20 years because of this bunch of Muppets playing judges.

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    Mute Pádraic O'Callanáin
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    Nov 29th 2012, 8:26 PM

    According to Amnesty International an estimated 800 non-Albanians were allegedly abducted and murdered by members of the KLA and to date very few of those suspected of criminal responsibility for these abductions have been prosecuted in Kosovo. In this instance, most of Harandinaj and his two pals from the Kosovo Liberation Army were accused of atrocities against Serb, Albanian and Roma civilians in 1998, the majority of the murdered vicims were ironically (for those celebrating in Pristina tonight) ethnic Albanians.

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    Mute B Lowe
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    Nov 29th 2012, 4:36 PM

    I agree with you Dragutin. The Hague is a tool of the West. That man is a criminal who should be locked up. But then again, he was never going to be found guilty. The US has its biggest base our used the US on Kosovo, one of the rewards it got for supporting Kosovo independence.
    Bush, Blair and a good many other Western leaders should have been tried by the Hague but they never were.
    If you suggested this in Western media you would be ridiculed. They caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent through unjust sanctions abs am even more criminal war.

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    Mute George L Rockwell
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    Nov 30th 2012, 7:59 PM

    Agree completely, Bill Clinton is a war criminal but he gets the red carpet treatment and lived like a celebrity

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