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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Michelle Cullen

Man who died in boating tragedy off coast of Antrim named locally

A pensioner who died after a boat sank off the coast of Co Antrim on Saturday has been named by police as Jim Allen.

A major rescue operation was launched in the afternoon after police received reports of a boating incident just after 3.30pm.

The 94-year-old and another man aged in his 70s entered the water when the boat capsized around one and a half miles from Carrickfergus near Greenisland.

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