Tributes paid to young man who died in fall near Garretstown beach on Saturday night
22 year old Conor King from Douglas died after he fell down a blowhole while camping with his friends.
Emergency services were alerted to the incident at around 11:30pm.
Units of the fire service, RNLI Crews, Rescue Helicopter 115 and Gardaí attended the scene and recovered a body from the sea at around midnight.
Conor was in his third year of Biomedical Engineering at MTU.
Head of student affairs, Dr Dan Collins says the university's thought are with Conor's family, friends and classmates.
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