THE body of a 22-year-old Cork student, missing for the past four weeks, was recovered yesterday evening from the river Lee near Blackrock Castle.
One of the most intensive searches carried out for a missing person had been undertaken by family and friends over the past month for Mr Cormac O'Donoghue, from Bandon, Co Cork. A third-year food science student at University College Cork, he was last seen with friends in Cork city on Sunday night, November 24th. The following day, when his friends could not find him, they raised the alarm.