Tributes have been paid to a leading figure in Irish and international aviation who died from a suspected heart attack while swimming off Cork. Geoffrey O’Byrne-White, 62, a former Air Corps pilot, former chief executive of CityJet, and a member of the Irish Aviation Authority, fell ill while swimming in Sandycove near Kinsale at around 6pm on Tuesday. Several people who were swimming nearby and a teenager on a paddle-board helped recover him ashore. He later moved to the PARC Group, becoming director of PARC Aviation where he established and expanded its maintenance and consultancy divisions. Man’s death believed to be accidentalGardaí are treating as accidental the death of a man who was found on a street in Kinsale town centre.

Source: Irish Examiner June 13, 2018 00:00 UTC