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Wicklow.—At 5.50 in the afternoon of the 8th of May, 1948, the lightkeeper at Wicklow Head reported that a boy had fallen from the nearby cliffs into the sea, and the motor life-boat Lady Kylsant was launched at 5.59. A light easterly breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth, but there was a dense fog. In spite of this the life-boat made for the cliffs at top speed. She found the boy's body in ten feet of water and the crew tried artificial respiration, but when they got back a doctor found that the boy's neck had been broken by the fall. The life-boat returned to her station, at 6.35— Rewards, £10 11*. 6d..