Body of missing teenager found in Wexford

The body of a missing teenager has been found by a sea wall on the Co Wexford coast.

The body of a missing teenager has been found by a sea wall on the Co Wexford coast.

Conal Owens (18) from Kilteel, Co Kildare, had been missing since New Year's Eve.

He had left a holiday house where he was staying with friends to walk to the beach at Curacloe at 11.00pm.

Hundreds of volunteers scoured the area where he was last seen in the weeks following his disappearance but failed to find any trace of him.

His body was spotted this afternoon by a man out walking in the North Slob area, a few kilometres from Wexford town. It was later recovered by Wexford RNLI lifeboat