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Video: Horse rescued after falling into river and being swept downstream

The horse was being swept downstream into Lough Derg.

Updated at 3.52pm

A YOUNG HORSE which fell into Nenagh river and was being swept downstream into Lough Derg was rescued by the RNLI yesterday.

The Lough Derg RNLI Lifeboat was requested to launch by Valentia Coast Guard at around 12.35pm.

The lifeboat was used to encourage the horse to swim towards shore and herd him into the shallows while a person on shore coaxed the horse from the water with a bucket of oats.

Cliodhna Russell / YouTube

The animal had wounds to its chest and knee and Valentia Coast Guard arranged for a vet to go to the location.

With some difficulty, the young horse was enclosed in a field.

And today, Dublin Fire Brigade along with gardaí were called to the Grand Canal in Dolphin’s Barn, Dublin, shortly after midday after a foal was spotted in the water.

Rescue divers managed to to pull the uninjured foal to safety.

Originally published at 11.31pm

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    Mute Pat Daly
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 7:42 AM

    Typical of the attitude of the Munster branch towards the club’s choosing to dictate rather then support when it comes to spending money gained on the back of the grass roots

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    Mute Cormac Ó Braonáin
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 6:07 PM

    @Pat Daly: in fairness Dolphin’s reasoning was pretty weak? Privacy? FFS

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    Mute Martin Sinnott
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 7:43 AM

    A few more pictures needed

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    Mute prop joe
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 9:49 AM

    @Martin Sinnott: i’ll be honest the way it is now is fine. Building a massive concrete wall would look terrible never mind be very expensive.

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    Mute prop joe
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 5:57 PM

    @Martin Sinnott: basically its a security fence and you can see onto the pitches. I don’t see a problem with this fence. A concrete wall would look terrible.

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    Mute Trevor Donoghue
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 2:46 PM

    So the club sold the land to Mc donalds to build a mc donalds on and now the club is annoyed that mc donalds built a mcdonalds?

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    Mute Rossi Rossborough
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 3:51 PM

    @Trevor Donoghue:

    Lol, pretty much!

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    Mute Michael Kavanagh
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 6:53 AM

    Sounds like a ‘line break’ to me!

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    Mute eastsmer
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 11:56 AM

    Munster Rugby was also the entity which sold the McDonald’s site to the fast food franchise in the first place.

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    Mute Charlie Hunter
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 8:41 AM

    They should organise a protest a la Doonbeg wall scenario, get rent-a-mob down in numbers and overturn the ruling on humanitarian grounds …be handy for the protestors too with a McDonald’s in the vicinity for a bit of grub when they’re famished from all the chanting.

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    Mute Gerry Fallon
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 11:02 AM

    So you can sit in McDonald’s eating your big Mac and watch a crap rugby team play.
    Is it more to do with embarrassment than anything else?

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    Mute Rossi Rossborough
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 3:45 PM

    @Gerry Fallon:
    Gerry you are a, emmmmm, oh I know .
    A spastic!!!

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    Mute Paul Holland
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 12:55 PM

    I never like conflict like this because people lose and money goes on legal fees. I don’t know enough to form an honest opinion but I would say to the rugby club – you mightn’t be as badly off as the GAA were in Limerick when they tried to develop Punch Park in the city decades ago

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    Mute Eilish Kelly
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    Jul 4th 2018, 9:51 AM

    why don’t they build a wooden 8ft fence on there side of the boundary line. They could even paint a mural on the side facing out to McDonald’s on how playing GAA makes u fit ,healthy and part of the community ,Were eating junk food (burgers) makes u fat and unhealthy

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