The search, now deemed a recovery operation, for a boy who went missing at the Cliffs of Moher on Tuesday, July 23 is continuing today, July 26.
"The Coast Guard continue to support a Garda operation to recover the body of a young boy who had fallen at the Cliffs of Moher," a spokesperson for Ireland's Department of Transport, which the Coast Guard is a part of, told IrishCentral on Friday.
The Irish Coast Guard offered its condolences to the family of the missing boy on Thursday.
The Department of Transport spokesperson further told IrishCentral on Friday: "Since July 24, the Coast Guard Rescue Coordination Centre in Valentia coordinated searches led by volunteers from the Doolin Coast Guard Unit using boats, drones, and cliff top searching and the Shannon-based Coast Guard helicopter R115.
"These searches were supplemented by other neighbouring Coast Guard Units. The search area has focused around the Cliffs of Moher and also in the surrounding sea areas including Galway Bay and the Aran Islands.
"Over the coming days, Coast Guard Units from Doolin, Cleggan, Inisheer, Costelloe Bay, Killaloe, and Coast Guard helicopter R115 will continue to search these areas.
"It is also understood that Civil defence drone units will also be searching in the area as tasked by An Garda Síochána and will operate in conjunction with the Coast Guard effort on scene."
An Garda Síochána separately confirmed that the operation was continuing today.
According to RTÉ News, the search operation was launched on Tuesday after a young boy was separated from his family, who is believed to be holidaying in Ireland from overseas.
The Irish Times reported on Friday that the boy is believed to be 12 years old.
This week's search operation comes the same month that Lochlann Murray, from the Crossmaglen area of Co Armagh, died after falling onto the rocks just above the shoreline at the Cliffs of Moher on July 5.
The 17-year-old’s body was recovered from the area on July 7 afternoon by members of Rockcorry Divers and the North Coast Search and Recovery team.
"The area below could not be seen from the top of the cliffs, but information was relayed via a drone," an RDNCSR spokesperson told the Belfast Telegraph
"Poor weather conditions in recent days, along with the swell and large rocks, made the recovery very difficult.
"Falling debris from the face of the cliff was another hazard the dive team had to be aware of.
"Divers made their way ashore to the base of the cliffs around 2:30 pm, and at around 3:30 pm, the body was located.
"The dive team successfully recovered the remains into their support vessel. The body was taken back to the Coast Guard station in Doolin."
A funeral for Lochlann was held on July 11 at St. Brigid's Church Glassdrummond.
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