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A SWIMMER HAS been rescued and brought to hospital after an extensive search in Kerry yesterday.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution said a search was carried out after clothes were found on a beach in Castlegregory during the day.
Fenit RNLI crew and the Rescue 115 helicopter were requested to launch and they set off at 12.40pm. Conditions were clear with calm waters and low tide.
The search was stood down in the afternoon before starting up again at 6pm. Two lifeboats searched the water and the helicopter searched from overhead.
At 8.30pm, volunteer lifeboat crew located the missing swimmer after spotting a head in the water. They were conscious but it’s not known how long they had been in the water.
An ambulance met the crew and Fenit Harbour and brought the swimmer to the hospital.
The swimmer was found about two-and-a-half miles off Castlegregory beach.
“After a long and exhaustive search, members of the lifeboat crew were overjoyed to sight the missing swimmer in the water,” Fenit RNLI Lifeboat Operations Manager Gerard O’Donnell said.
“Even at this time of year, the water can be very cold and as yet we don’t know how long this person was in the water and when they entered it. When the lifeboat crew found them they were a good distance from the shore and were exhausted.”
He advised anyone going for a swim to let people know where they are going and when they are expected to return.
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Looking forward to the brits saying saidhbhín, they cant even sat doherty correctly
@Brian Dunne: Lee Mack might have to update his Irish names routine…
@Brian Dunne: Does anyone know why the British pronounce Doherty as Dockerty? There is clearly no k in the name. Does my head in.
@Peter Cavey: because they know it annoys us, aul brits up to their old tricks
@Peter Cavey: McGrath and Moran are two other simple names they can’t master
@Brian Dunne: And Gallagher. They say Gallagurr but yet they can pronounce Callaghan just fine.
@Brian Dunne: how is it pronounced?
@Madra: Sadabadahnnnnnnnnnnnin I think
@Madra: sive-een
@Madra: sive-een.
@Brian Dunne: I would have problems with the pronunciation of Saidbhin Sorry about the lack of a fada I don’t know how to type one
@Brian Dunne: Hope we don’t get as far as S!
@Peter Cavey: yup. It comes from a time when even we pronounced it closer to Dockerty. It’s from Middle Irish Dochartaigh, where the ch is pronounced as in Scottish loch. The English continued to pronounce this k/ch sound, while we in Ireland lost it. Think along the lines of Monaghan (originally Muineachán), Fermanagh (Fear Manach), Gallagher (Gallchobhair) etc. The gh in Monaghan and Fermanagh is now rendered a h or absent in all English dialects, but in some words the original sound has been retained in a much closer approximation in English dialects than in Irish English dialects.
@Peter Cavey: Scottish
@dmcardle: I remember that! I’m still trying to figure out whether I ought to be amused or insulted by that sketch :)
Diversity for storm names…talk about snowflakes and first world problems..
@Canyon: People complaining about storm names – first world problems.
@Canyon: Well, we do live in the first world last time I checked…
They have put the phonetics under Evert, Klaas and Minnie but have left Saidhbhàin to chance. Good luck BBC weather team!
@Ted Logan: This is Met Eireann’s graphic for Ireland. I imagine the UK and Dutch met offices will produce their own version with phonetics for the ones that are challenging locally.
I wonder why Saidhbhín and not Saidhbh. I know noone with that name, though I Saidhbh is familiar
@Goban Saor: Do you know many Everts?
@Goban Saor: It’s just so that we could have more fun messing with some Sky presenters’ heads!
Congratulations to all the team. No longer will have to point at the weather and shout, ‘I hate that nameless b@stard’.
Saidhbhín? Picking a random, barely pronounceable name is the way forward I guess.
Can imagine the person who added the phonetic spelling getting to Saidhbhin ..” Sai.. …what the F …I give up”
What happens if there are more storms than names listed about.. 21 there.. will No 22 be called Aiden +1?
What a load of bl…… seriously picking hardest to say names a poss.
Wheres Mohammud?
Naming weather. Whatever!
They should have got enough practise trying to pronounce Eyjafjallajökull a few years ago.
Should not there be a list from time to time and then, once all the names have been used, to get a new list? Most years, the second half of the list does not have any storm (fortunately).
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