Post mortem due today on boy(13) who drowned while swimming in the Liffey yesterday

A post mortem is due to be carried out today on the body of a 13-year-old boy who died while swimming in the River Liffey in Dublin yesterday afternoon.

The teenager was out enjoying the weekend sunshine when he got into trouble at around 2.30pm in an area of the Liffey between Islandbridge and Chapelizod.

A Garda sub-aqua team was called to the scene, and the teenager's body was hauled from the water at around 4pm. The boy's body was taken to St James' Hospital, where a post mortem examination will be carried out later today.