08/03/2012
Snow Patrol Donate £10K To Sonar Fund
Northern Irish Band Snow Patrol have donated a staggering £10,000 to a fund which will be used to buy sonar equipment.
The fund was launched after 20-year-old Joby Murphy drowned in the River Lagan.
The young man had attended Snow Patrol's concert before embarking on a night out in the Odyssey Arena and later going missing.
After a four-week search of the River Lagan, his body was located by a search team from Cork.
Joby's family are now trying to raise £30,000 for sonar equipment which would help to locate missing bodies.
There is currently only one sonar unit in use for the whole of Ireland.
(LB)
The fund was launched after 20-year-old Joby Murphy drowned in the River Lagan.
The young man had attended Snow Patrol's concert before embarking on a night out in the Odyssey Arena and later going missing.
After a four-week search of the River Lagan, his body was located by a search team from Cork.
Joby's family are now trying to raise £30,000 for sonar equipment which would help to locate missing bodies.
There is currently only one sonar unit in use for the whole of Ireland.
(LB)
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