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Nicola Donnelly & Milo Boyd

Hero brother dies trying to save older sister from sea as son watches in horror

A brother and sister died in the sea together despite his valiant attempts to pull her out to safety.

Dessie Byrne, 50, and Muriel Eriksson, 62, were swimming in the water of a County Kerry beach together on the first day of a holiday on Thursday evening.

The older sibling had found herself struggling in the Atlantic waves off the south west coast of Ireland at Bundoran beach, the Irish Mirror reported.

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