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TWO YOUNG MEN are recovering this evening after being rescued from their upturned car and airlifted to hospital last night.
The crash happened shortly before 7.45pm: the vehicle drove off the Mount Allen Bridge, close to the town of Drumshanbo in Leitrim, and plunged around 20 feet into a ravine below.
The alarm was raised, and a call was put through to the Irish Coast Guard station at Malin from the ambulance service. The Rescue 118 helicopter was dispatched to the scene, and paramedics made their way down into the ravine, which contains the Arigna river – a tributary of the Shannon.
Both men were assessed at the scene, before being winched into the helicopter and flown to Sligo General Hospital, a spokesperson for the Coast Guard told TheJournal.ie.
The 118 helicopter then returned to base, and was immediately dispatched on another mission – which turned out to be a hoax.
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Hoax callers to rescue 118. Should be dropped off the cliffs of moher
Yup, those guys were seriously lucky the hoax call didn’t go through before theirs..
Fact!
Well done to the rescue team, if and when hoaxers are caught there should a mandatory prison term on awaiting them on the statute books.
the stupidity of hoax callers is unbelievable. If caught, should be jailed for 20 years
Well done to the rescuers , brave men and women
Do we have ravines in Ireland? I’d call that a dike.
It’s a canal blasted out of limestone. 20 to 25 feet deep and about 30 feet across. Usually 4 to 6 feet if fast flowing water.
The poles and Latvians have netted all the fish out of it and destroyed the fishing for years.
Pole an Latvians haven’t netted all the fish!! Where you coming from!! We have people from Germany, uk and France come to this area to also fish!! Hope they don’t offend you also!!
Followed by a Hoax call..a swift kick in the nads is needed for the spa who made that call.
It will be hard to beat that story in the pub a few years down the line.
The dukes of hazard would have cleared that jump
Did Skippy find them ?
The headline makes it sound like a deliberate act.
Two people rescued after car driven into ravine perhaps should read “was driven”
Bejaysus.
I always thought it was drumshambro
Was at the scene of the accident, in my opinion the to men are luckly to be alive thanks to helicopter and crew.
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