Jill Amante, a second-year student at Ballymakenny College in Drogheda, was swimming with two friends last Friday when a wave hit. But as they were getting out, Jill was hit by a second wave that took her back into the water. "They told us how she was taken by the second wave," she said. Two lifeboats, from Skerries and Clogherhead, were launched and a coastguard helicopter also joined the search. Jill was airlifted by coastguard helicopter to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, where she was pronounced dead.

Source: Irish Independent June 30, 2019 06:56 UTC