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RTÉ PRESENTER MICHAEL Lyster has said he believes he would be dead if he had not accidentally left his phone in a friend’s car.
The sports anchor suffered a heart attack at his home earlier this month, and described it as “a bit of a stir”.
Speaking to RTÉ’s Today with Sean O’Rourke, Lyster said he just been dropped home after an evening of golf, and when his friend, Irish Independent journalist Vincent Hogan, drove away, he remembered he had left his phone in the car.
I rang him from the house phone and said ‘Hogie, I’ve left my phone in the car, would you mind just swinging back?’
“He was greeted with the sight of me lying on the floor. He shouted for Anne who started CPR.”
The ambulance took around ten minutes to arrive and Anne was basically keeping me alive at that stage. Even as the ambulance pulled up outside the house, they were on the phone to Vincent saying ‘We’re outside, but tell her not to stop’”
Lyster said that without the CPR, he would have died.
If I had not left the phone in the car, I was a goner [...] I would have been found dead in the morning in the hallway.
He said the experience has made him “very aware of the broader picture of life, how things can suddenly be snatched away from you.”
The Sunday Games presenter said he is recovering well, has had a defibrillator fitted in his chest, and expects to return to television in July.
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This winner of this week’s Ireland’s dumbest criminal.
They’re all winners.
Should have been a maniac instead of a brainiac
may be dumb but dangerous as any simple google search will show
Recaptured?! He handed himself in.
And didn’t even throw away the knife first. What a genius.
You’d have to wonder where he tried to hide it. Seems like he’s enjoying himself though.
Why do skangers always look the same??? sound the same who are they trying to emulate? They should be aiming themselves to be like enda kenny
Socio – economics peer pressure basically makes them want to fit in. The real question is why anybody who is not a criminal wants to dress like one.
Obviously not too worried about the consequences of his actions and why should he because there are no consequences.
So he handed himself in whilst carrying a weapon. Ireland’s dumbest criminal? Maybe, but I doubt it.
Clearly he just knows that he will. It get any extra prison time for absconding or for carrying a weapon whilst a prisoner.
It will just give him temporary kudos amongst the skang fraternity
Who is in today? haha!
46 convictions at 22 years of age…ffs…what a waste of space!
can’t doubt his dedication…. if this skobe has been done 46 times. imagine what he’s got away with…… I’d have him and his ilk doing 20 years hard labour or chain ganged
Plonker!
Let’s hope the authorities manage to hold on to him this time
Left through the back door of the courthouse! I suppose we should be grateful he isn’t Hannibal Lector
what a dope he walked into a cop shot known he was wanted carrying a weapon, surely he must have known he would be searched
cop shop
No point in been stupid if you don’t show it !
*being
Yawn !
He’s not called short planks for nothing.
What a dud.
He looks like a right F×ckin Donkey!
A knife,a number of phones, and a USB stick. Jaysus
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