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THE TEENAGER WHO drowned at the Ballinamore family festival in Co Leitrim has been named locally as\u00a0Alan Creamer.<\/p>\n
Alan died this morning after being pulled from the water at\u00a0Kiltymoodan, Ballinamore.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed said they attended the scene following a report of a person in the water in the early hours.<\/p>\n
They said he was taken from the water and was subsequently pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n
His body has been removed to Sligo mortuary where a post-mortem examination will be arranged, garda\u00ed said. The coroner has been notified.<\/p>\n
A post on Rip.ie said \u201cAlan left us far too soon. His bright smile and kind heart will stay with us forever.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alan is predeceased by his grandparents Mary and Berney McKiernan.<\/p>\n
He is survived by his mother Carmel, father John and sister Chloe, and his grandparents Mary and Liam Creamer.<\/p>\n
The organisers of the festival said that the fireworks planned for this evening would not be going ahead as a mark of respect.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Ballinamore Family Festival Committee is deeply saddened by the tragic events in Ballinamore on Saturday night,\u201d it said in a post on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur thoughts are with the family and friends of those affected and with everyone who is hurting at this very difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Ballinamore family festival marks its 60th occurrence this year, running from 9 to 16 August.<\/p>\n
It holds free open-air concerts, featuring the likes of\u00a0Mike Denver, Derek Ryan, Sean Magee, and is one of the few remaining week-long festivals in Ireland.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAST UPDATE | 1 hr ago THE TEENAGER WHO drowned at the Ballinamore family festival in Co Leitrim…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[252041,4596,252042,1044,15529,61,60,25524,43,23370],"class_list":["post-595256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ballinamore-family-festival","tag-death","tag-family-festival","tag-festival","tag-fireworks","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-leitrim","tag-news","tag-teenager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}