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DIED AFTER FALL Howth, Co. Dublin. At 5 p.m. on I2th June, 1964, the gardai told the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen down the cliff at Balscadden and could be seen in the water. The tide had been ebbing for two hours and there was a light north-easterly breeze. At 5.13 the life-boat A.M.T. left her moorings and made her way through a choppy sea, reaching the scene of the accident at about 5.20. It was found that the fire brigade had already reached the boy. He was placed on the stretcher and ferried out to the life-boat which returned to her station at 5.55. A member of the fire service administered oxygen on board the life-boat but the boy had died..