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Tributes have been paid to a 22-year-old student who tragically died after falling into a blowhole in West Cork in a freak accident.
Conor King, a lifeguard and Munster Technological University student from Douglas in Cork City, suffered head injuries from the fall down the 50-foot blowhole on a cliff near the Old Head of Kinsale on Saturday evening.
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King was part of a group of 10 or more people who were camping close to Garretstown Beach on Saturday and it is believed that he didn t see the entrance to the blowhole as he walked along the cliff-top in the gathering darkness on Saturday evening.
Family pay tribute to one of a kind Conor King as he is laid to rest on his 23rd birthday
Conor s mam also thanked his friend who bravely tried to save him after he fell in to a blowhole near Garretstown
Conor King from Broadale in Cork who lost his life in a tragic accident west of Garretstown beach in West Cork
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A man who died after a fall into a blow hole from cliffs near Garrettstown beach in west Cork is being buried today on what would have been his 23rd birthday.
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happy birthday beautiful boy
Heartbroken mum of young man who died in cliff fall tells funeral he ‘succeeded in squashing 100 years into 23’
Ann Mooney
Updated: 17:22, 28 Apr 2021
A STUDENT who died in a cliff fall last weekend “succeeded in squashing 100 years into 23 years”, his heartbroken mum told mourners at his funeral mass on what would have been his 23rd birthday today.
Maura King, her husband Eamonn and daughter Aine stood on the altar close to their son Conor’s coffin this morning as she said: “Happy 23rd birthday our beautiful boy”.
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The hearse leaves the church carrying Conor King s body as friends form a guard of honour