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RESCUE TEAMS IN Tramore carried out an operation with a difference at the weekend, when they rescued a stranded bull who had fallen from a cliff and taken refuge on a rocky outcrop.
The drama unfolded after on Sunday evening when gardaí were told of the stranded animal.
He had fallen off a cliff near a well-known local landmark, the Metal Man, and had swam to a rocky ledge near Newton Cove, a few hundred metres away.
Tramore RNLI at the local Coast Guard team tried to reach the animal on Sunday — but a lack of daylight resulted in a decision to try again at first light.
The next morning, the two crews made a second attempt, in the company of a representative from Waterford Animal Welfare.
A rope was secured to the animal, and passed to the lifeboat crew.
The oars of the RNLI vessel were then used to gently usher the bull off his rocky shelter and into the water.
Once there, according to the rescuers, he started swimming and came alongside the lifeboat, before being guided into a nearby cove.
“Our thoughts were to try help the poor animal but also to prevent anyone trying to carry out a rescue themselves without the correct advice or equipment,” Tramore RNLI’s Dave O’Hanlon said.
“Bulls are very strong and could easily cause an injury.
“I was also surprised to learn they are good swimmers too.”
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You can turn them off?
I have heard it all now. There is a disorder for everything
Pretty dependent on mine, but it’s pretty sad when you look at a group of people in a pub / restaurant and they’re all tapping away in silence together. I’m good at putting it away when I’m with friends / family
Yep, I am totally addicted to mine…it’s always by my side. If I leave the house without it I go straight back home to pick it up… Bit of a worry really!
Yup that’s me !! I panic tbh thought it was unhealthy alright ! Since I was 16 I have slept with my phone next to me !! Lol it sounds crazy when I think about it! I’m more afraid of misplacing my phone than misplacing my friend lol
So have this.
Yeah i know someone like that.. wakes up in the morning and checks email twitter and FB. dont think she checks for texts of phone calls tho.
Shouldn’t it be called iPhobia?
It was inevitable really. We live in the information age where everything and anything can be done ‘via web’.. I’m addicted to mine, but tbh I think that’s an acceptable lifestyle in this day and age.
don’t give a monkeys about my phone, can easily go a day or two without checking it and i use a 5 year old 2g iphone
Well, it’ll probably be starting school in September so at least you’ll have the day to yourself.
Hahaha @David
This disease was rampant up until the end of the last century. Lead people to vandalise public phones (a phone in a glass box at the side of the street) by ripping off the hand set ( the part of the glass box you had to speak into)
You talking about me?
Haha does NOT apply to me at all! I have the most wonderful phone HTC RHYME and I never Ever know where it is and so never hear it ringing and so do not know who called or texted me. I am so bad that sometimes I see Txts only days later lol
Ah jaysus, couldn’t you have put up a picture of an iPhone. What the hell is that yolk
my worse case was the other night my friend got a tx and straight away all I could think was where is my phone, couldnt c it in my sight so spent ages looking for it for no reason…….is there a helpline for us yet???
duh of course its ok unless you’re from the 1920′s
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