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A CYCLIST HAS been rescued from the Avoca River in Co Wicklow after a multi-agency rescue operation last night.
The Wicklow Fire Service, gardaí, ambulance and Coast Guard volunteers all responded – as did the Arklow RNLI crew.
The alarm was raised at around 9.25pm, following reports a cyclist had fallen into the Avoca River, near Arklow.
The man was eventually located, tangled up thick brambles, upriver from the town’s landmark ’19 Arches’ Bridge.
Two RNLI crew members swam to the man, reassured him that he would be okay and began removing him from the brambles.
A small rescue boat was then launched, and the crew-members – along with the rescued cyclist – clambered on board.
A waiting ambulance transported him to hospital.
John Tyrrell, the Arklow Lifeboat Operations manager, said it was a successful multi-agency response:
“I’d like to say well done to all involved, this incident involved almost all of our local emergency services, through the inter agency co-operation we all managed to save a life, again this shows the importance of our emergency services training together to work together.”
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That was a brilliant attack by Christie. Called out Rubio for what he is: a debator and gas bag of memorized lines, not a problem solver.
Exactly like our Enda.
Enda wouldn’t have a hope of memorising a 25 second speech.
Without the speech bit…
Brilliant and those who red thumped this no doubt have an IQ as low as Enda . We are some nation to have a man leading us who needs bullies like Hayes to do his bidding
You’re right paddy, didn’t Enda throw the towel in after 3 questions on the launch of the election campaign. Muppet
I heard his advisors gave him an ‘earwig’ and the thing is still rattling around his skull.
#FeelTheBern only way forward.. I’d nearly prefer republicans than Clinton
Debates are a load of shit anyway with questions already known to candidates beforehand and responses written by staffers to help the candidate dodge and evade answering the question until time runs out.
Good to see Christie calling Rubio on this but they’re all guilty of repeating the same old media-friendly soundbites.
I would love to see a debate in the style of the West Wing debate episode where they basically throw out the rule book, the time allocation and just offer differing opinions on the best way of governance.
“Memorialised” is not the same thing as “memorised.”
After reading the article, I’m still none the wiser as to what a memorialised speech is.
Trump may go too far sometimes but he’s defending free speech against the PC brigade which damages democracy.
the presidential election is a punch and judy show……………….they are just puppets on a string post election. special interest groups and lobbyists call the shots and write the laws.
their are topics that will never be mentioned or brought up in the debates, like the military industrial complex and how ocer 50% of taxes goes toward it, then there is banking and how the finance sector needs to be reigned in.
Rubio just wants to be President to harm Cuba…
Chris Christie hates the poor….
have your say