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Updated 3.28 PM
TWO DIVERS HAVE died in separate incidents at sea in Cork and Donegal last night and this morning.
The first man died after being recovered by a lifeboat at Roches Point in Co Cork last night.
The volunteers of Crosshaven RNLI were called to the scene by a group of divers in a dive boat just after 6pm when the man became unresponsive during the course of a dive.
The lifeboat met the dive boat on its way back to shore at Fort Camden in Cork Harbour and the man was moved to the lifeboat for swift transfer.
The lifeboat crew immediately took over first aid before they were met ashore by Crosshaven RNLI’s Dr John Murphy and Crosshaven Coast Guard.
Crosshaven Coast Guard had been contacted to prepare a helicopter landing site at at the GAA pitch on Camden Road but this was not required.
The man was then transferred to the national ambulance service who took him to hospital where later he died.
In another incident, a man believed to be Polish national died after he got into difficulty diving off the Malin Head coast of morning.
The Donegal Daily reports that the 45-year-old man was part of a group who were diving about 4 nautical miles off the coast.
A distress signal was made at 7.50am this morning and helicopters based out of Sligo and Antrim both scrambled to the scene.
A British Navy helicopter which was in the area at the time got to the casualty first and he was taken to Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry where he was later pronounced dead.
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Lessons to be learnt >> we’re gonna do the same thing over and over and no one will be punished or even remotely held accountable.
@David Lawlor: It’s next time we will have to try harder to keep things hushed up. We have learnt a valuable lesson.
Lessons to be learned, should be fffg new motto.
Ah the aul “Lessons will be learned” spiel. Are they ever though?
Lessons to be learnt! We have been hearing that since the Blood Contaminarion/AIDS scandal.
Is there any big news today that will bury this?
@James Lyons: They are using this to bury all the other things he has being up to..
@James Lyons:
Joe Biden comes back to ireland ?
LOL
Has there been another crime committed inside the corridors of power? Goodness me, what a bunch of lads they are? The voters must be so proud of their accomplishments.
Well that’s a surprise
Definition of Insanity. Doing scandal over and over again.
Two weeks to flatten the curve!! So many gullible people out there. Still.
They are an absolute joke.
@Fergal McDonagh:
the cervical check victims aren’t laughing
Herr tony coming back into public focus around the time of the release of his book. Hmmm. What chapter does he apologise to the victims of the cervical check scandal?
Some just want and want more power , power and greed .. Jesus how he could keep the drive with his wife’s passing ! Pass it to a younger person now . He will already get a huge pension.
Can’t wait to see Lessons To Be Learned , the Musical .
Remember when he was being lionised here on these pages? Remember someone making a mural of him with a superman outfit? Remember him receiving the freedom of the city?
It was all disgraceful then and it still is.
SF made them do it.
in any other country, senior individuals would have been fired. and yet the spin continues, as expected from the featured parties, ‘lost opportunity’, etc, and all that sort of nonsense. #SomeNeck #PulledaFastOne
” Lessons To Be Learned ”
Aaahh sure that’s the perfect name for a Eurovision song that could get us back to winning ways.
@Thom Thumb:
When I was young, I had a dream
And though the dream was very small,
It wouldn`t leave me.
To be a beggar for a fee
To play the poet or the fool
And now you see me.
And now the miracle is mine
And fault and the war begun
And now there`s nothing left to hide,
Still I………
And now I`ve nothing left but time,
Still I reach out through this empty life
Monk not guilty
@Nicholas O’Halloran: lotta people running for the hills I’d say.
@Nicholas O’Halloran:
Look at Da
i bet the monk done Da
Donnelly is a muppet. A fully qualified spoofer. As for Holohan? The whiff of arrogance from him is stifling.
@Kenmark:
he might go for president
“Lessons to be learned” , that phrase is a way for those in power to politely tell the public to F off .
If I hear lessons to be learnt one more time from a FF or FG lackey, I will lose my 5h1t!!
@Stephen Mullins:
and if i hear “Move forward” from SF
@GERARD KENNELLY: You must get tired always being wrong and having to eat **** from shinner’s. That’s what you get for being wrong so change the tune
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