Andrew Carey
THE search for missing 19-year-old NUI Galway arts student Mark Casey has ended in tragedy after the discovery of his body was made this Saturday morning.
Search parties operating in the area along the Canal Bank at Rhebogue made the discovery in the water.
Mark was last seen emerging on the Dublin Road area of the city having left the Angel Lane night club on his own over a week ago.
The Offaly native had become separated from his friends who he was in Limerick with celebrating a birthday.
CCTV footage had tracked Mark leaving the Cornmarket area near Robert Street and heading towards William Street before he turned down Lower Gerald Griffin Street some time 3am.
The 19 year old from Tullamore was seen again leaving the Pennywell area and emerging on to the Dublin Road.
Mark was unfamiliar with the area and was supposed to be staying in the Kilmurray Student accommodation on the night he went missing.
Volunteers from Tulamore had travelled to Limerick every day since Mark’s disappearance and shortly before lunchtime this Saturday, his uncle was one of the members of a search party who made the tragic discovery at the canal.
The body has been removed from the canal by divers from Limerick Marine Search and Rescue and brought to the University Hospital Limerick for a postmortem to be carried out.
Meantime, searches for missing LIT student Steven Kavanagh are continuing after his disappearance over 10 days ago.
The 21-year-old student’s union vice president, went missing after a night out and was last seen in the Clonlara area.
