Tributes have been paid to singer songwriter Johnny Duhan, who died after getting into difficulty while swimming off the Galway coast.
Mr Duhan, 74, was best known as the writer of 'The Voyage', a song made famous by Christy Moore, on his 1989 album of the same name.
He was one of two people reported missing following what gardaí have described as separate incidents at Silverstrand beach, on the western outskirts of the city.
A search for a woman, aged in her 30s, resumed this morning.
Singer Mary Coughlan described his death as "very sad".
She said she got to know the songwriter during the 80s when he moved to Galway.
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Mr Duhan wrote her hit song 'Whiskey Didn't Kill the Pain' which, she said, she sings at every gig.
'It's one of the songs that people know very well and sing along to."
Speaking on Morning Ireland, Ms Coughlan said that Mr Duhan had given her two songs and while she liked both of them, she eventually persuaded him that the two songs put together would make "one great song".
"He had very clear ideas about what he wanted and I think it's the only time he's ever changed his mind about a song," Ms Coughlan said.
She added that the single was on her biggest selling album 'Uncertain Pleasures'.
"It's all very sad," the singer said, as she paid condolences to Mr Duhan's wife, children and extended family.
Writing on X, Taoiseach Simon Harris described Mr Duhan as "a renowned and much loved songwriter".
"Thinking of his family and loved ones at this very sad time."
