Search underway for missing man in Mayo

Gardai are searching the River Moy near Foxford, Co Mayo for the male companion of a woman whose body was found by a team of …

Gardai are searching the River Moy near Foxford, Co Mayo for the male companion of a woman whose body was found by a team of searchers yesterday.

The body of the 27-year-old woman was taken to Mayo General Hospital yesterday.

She is understood to have been socialising with the missing man in a local pub on Thursday.

A spokeswoman said gardai were treating the man's disappearance as a missing person and are carrying out a search of the river as part of the investigation.

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