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A FIVE-YEAR old who became trapped in a tumble dryer at his home in Bangor, Co. Down, was rescued with the aid of the family dog, Teddy, who alerted the boy’s mother that he was in danger.
Riley Gedge-Duffy became trapped after the door closed on the dryer, which automatically turned on.
Teddy, however, managed to raise the alarm to Riley’s mother, who was vacuuming in another room, by barking loudly to notify her that something was wrong.
His father, Aaron Duffy, told BBC’s Good Morning Ulster: “The ambulance man says that another couple of minutes probably would have killed him.”
After the family called an ambulance, Riley was rushed to Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, where he was treated for burns to his arms, back and head.
His father said that Riley, who has Down syndrome, is now on the mend. “He’s doing very well,” he said. “He’s up, he’s eating, he’s smiling. He’s the same old Riley.”
The setting on the tumble dryer means that once it is closed, it automatically turns on, and Aaron believes that Riley was extremely fortunate: “The risks are there. We’re one of the lucky ones who caught it in time.”
A spokesperson from the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Health and Social Care Trust told TheJournal.ie that such an incident was “extremely rare” and indicated that if Riley had been in there a few more minutes, his injuries could have been far more severe.
This was not the first time that the two-year-old female cockapoo, a cross-breed mix between a poodle and a cocker spaniel, stepped in to alert the family that there was something wrong.
The father added: “The dog notified us before of an incident about to happen in the house. A phone charger was overheating and was catching fire. Only for the dog’s reactions on that day did my wife realise something was wrong this time.”
The family hope that Riley will be cleared to return home from hospital in the coming days.
As for Teddy, Aaron told RTE: “[He'll] be getting a fillet steak.”
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What would you have them do, watch people die?. These people tried to cross before the navy got there and they’ll still be crossing if the navy leaves. Only difference is with the navy there less will die.
It’s not up to our navy where to bring them, there following the orders of the people in charge. And further more if you drop them back they’ll try again and again. Love the humanity the people on this site show.
Their point of origin is usually not known, and surely you are not insane enough to want one of our ships to get within several kilometres of the Libyan coast, where it could come under devastating fire from the shore?
“where it could come under devastating fire” I should hope our naval forces are trained to be more than just glorified ferry operators. Keep bringing these people into Europe and the message is clear to their fellow illegals waiting to set sail from Africa, Europe’s doors are wide open.
Fintan, it’s not like the Libyan coastline is fortified with gun positions every other mile like the North Korean coast. Much of the coastline is utterly abandoned and I’d say the various factions are more interested in conserving their ammo for killing one another.
Our navy should be no where near this mission. It is in direct conflict with our status as a Neutral country. By all means send civilians to assist with the rescue of people but we should take any military vessels out of harms way straight away.
Civilian vessels should involved as opposed to our Navy. Who ever sent them needs to talk to the electorate,
Niamh that is totally incorrect. A refugee is an asylum seeker who has had their claim of asylum successfully processed, only then are they considered refugees. None of the people aboard these boats fit that description, they are illegal immigrants.
No problem with people coming to Europe or helping people in need.
My problem is people coming by water, how many lives have been lost due to the water route ? How many more is it going to take before the tick fookers elites, get it into their heads, that allowing this access route is dangerous.
Australia did this and it stopped needless deaths.
Patrick, they’re migrants. Chances are they will be classed as refugees and you can relax.
We’re living in the biggest refugee crisis since WWII, let’s not forget.
If Ireland descends into civil war tomorrow and we all take to the seas to escape I wonder would you be so pedantic about whether you call yourself an illegal emigrant, an emigrant, a refugee or asylum seeker?
@ Margie Murph It would be fascinating, in a way, to find out what happened to you to leave you so full of seething hate, but please don’t tell us the details. The world is already so full of sadness.
Steven Lee, If you don’t want to sound like a complete moron you should drop the ridiculous hyperbole.
I think the fire brigade does a great service and should continue to put out fires and rescue people – does that mean I have to offer to house every one whose house burns down? It’s such a dumb thing to say. We have governments whose job it is to deal with refugee crises.
Why not just call them “people”, Niamh? They are in danger at sea and many of them are children. The only civilised thing to do is save them, but a forum like this gives a lot of non-achievers a chance to be someone and vent their frustration, envy, hate and irrational fears. There are plenty of people like that in the world, poorly educated and determined to remain steeped in ignorance and bigotry. For them everything is a zero-sum game; anything that goes to anyone else is automatically something to which they feel entitled and are being deprived.
And don’t forget that a lot of the people who attempt the hazardous sea crossing have rather dusky skins. The same people who vent so much hate here will probably be on their knees thumping their craws at Mass next Sunday, but are too stupid to ask the sky fairy they worship why it made so many people on Earth black or brown just to annoy good white Irish Catholics.
@niamhkenneally Alot of “ifs in your statement . What we would all climb aboard a boat and head for USA . No europeans have a history of staying and fighting for their country . And the USA/Europe share out christians values
Only one in five migrants arriving in Europe are genuine refugees Niamh. The rest are cynically piggybacking on the tragic circumstances of those refugees. Although naive sentimentalism plays better to the gallery than pragmatism and reality.
Niamh.. the clue is in the word Refugee. .if someone leaves a country looking for refuge and refuses that refuge in the first country that offers it and travels to another country or accrues Europe in most cases them they are immigrants. .if the go to the Country that offers the best welfare benefits then they are Economic migrants ..you are the only moron here ..you and your like are being played by the media…we get the picture of the child on the beach face down in the water but not the Priest who had his head cut off ….your are being played on your emotions and are to stupid to realise it.
#Tariq.. you are aware of the rape epidemic in Sweden? 100% of rapes carried out on girls by people they don’t know were immigrants. .I’m sure your also aware of the arrests of Muslim men in Germany masterbating while looking into public swimming pools at children getting swimming lessons …you do know right ?
@steven. Of course he is aware. But he doesn’t care. Unholy behaviour by migrant men is not their fault. Those women and children in swimming pools should be in burkinis. They weren’t. So They had it coming!
“Only one in five migrants arriving in Europe are genuine refugees Niamh.”
What is your source for that statistic, Joe? Or is it just plucked from your anal cavity?
Even if it was true, how would our Naval Service be able to distinguish between the 20% who are genuine refugees and the 80% that you believe should be allowed to drown?
Steven, in case you missed the entire article we’re discussing, these people were picked up at sea, so your little rant about them crossing land borders is completely irrelevant.
It would be some boat ride to land on German coastline..i suggest you look back on your junior cert geography…and describing facts and common sense as a rant is a poor come back ..convince a fool against her will ..she will have the same opinion still.
Niamh is this another one of your right on politically correct causes that you and the gals high five each other about? ;-) You’re a young girl, you’ve a lot of growing up to do.
These illegal migrants should be immediately arrested for breaking immigration law. Any migrants found to be not directly fleeing a conflict (the vast majority) should be returned to point of origin at gunpoint if necessary and fingerprinted. Any genuine refugees (a tiny minority) should be housed in an ample UN facility in the Middle East.
Watch them die is exactly what the extreme right would like to do. “One less muslim to worry about” would be the thought process.
This is the kind of despicable person we’re dealing with who would literally oppose the saving of innocent lives.
Agree Fred ..hard for people in their 20s to understand how Muslims inpact on our society and lifestyle when you only have the token family you see in your leafy Cork middle class suburbia. .I lived in Luton and saw racism against white people like you would can not imagine ..whole streets a no go area for white people..shops that won’t serve you ..Muslims ghettoise everywhere they live …and kick down harder than the English ever did with us Irish in the 50s and 60s
“Watch them die”. “One less Muslim to worry about”. Rochelle, you do talk mawkish rubbish. No one on here wants to watch any body die. Most people on here want people picked up but not brought to Europe. Is that so difficult for your PC addled brain to comprehend. Picked up and dropped back from whence they came. The emotion dripping from your alarmist nonsense is part of the problem here. Policy based on Emotional guff will be the death of Europe.
Well done to the Irish Navy on its humane, humanitarian and compassionate actions.
The hurlers on the ditch, such as poor sad Patrick Watson will whinge, whine, complain and feel self sorry while the Irish Naval service will save lives in very challenging circumstances.
Contract human nobility at its best in what the Irish Naval service is doing and the sad and mean comments attacking the misfortunate refugees, on the other hand.
As fir the alarmist rhetoric, the comments would still be overblown if the rescue missions were happening in Dublin bay , never mind well over a thousand miles away in the Mediterranean.
Ultimately the people of Europe are overwhelmingly in favour of welcoming refugees to Europe and allowing them to restart their lives.
The tabloid rag scare-mongering above is merely Neo-Nazi posturing, if you told Robert, Steven, Fred, Joe, Patrick, Margie and their easily-led child-like minds that an open border extremist put a panda in their fridge, they would drop everything and run into the kitchen to check.
Politically the far-right / Alt-Right extremists are on the furthest fringes of society, their only political party in Ireland, the sad and pathetic Identity Crisis Ireland, only got 183 votes at the recent General Election, PMSL!
Let them rant and rave about Muslim bogeyman, empty vessels make the most noise, but nobody is listening anyway.
During the rescue of people in dreadful peril, it is not practical for the Irish naval service or any other rescuers to act in an immigration control mode. The priority is to save human lives.
All human lives are of equal value. We are all sisters and brothers bound to each other by our common humanity.
It is the better part of human nature and an ennobling part of the human condition that some human beings will take risks and extend themselves to save their fellow human beings from danger. This is to be admired by most of us.
For others, probably a minority, fearful paranoia disables their capacity for compassion.
Truly well done to the Irish Naval Service. They do worthy work.
@michael olain. Nobody, right or left has a monopoly on compassion. Nobody wants to see anybody drown. But the boats take to sea knowing full well they will be picked up and brought to Europe. Europeans Christian compassion is creating a massive draw. Europe can’t accommodate the entire third world. These same boats should bring the migrants back to their ports of origin. That would be the compassionate thing to do with regard to the women and children of Europe, thousands of whom have been groped. Molested and raped by these very same men that our armed services are depositing on the shores of Europe.
@TariqibnZiyad . Considering the majority are muslim economic migrants Yes thats right Europe needs more muslims . We need more mosques on every corner,good old sharia law ,men and women segragation ,hal al take aways,Burkas for every women,do away with chrismas,more religious nuts and make Ramadan a public holiday for everyone . No thanks
“Ultimately the people of Europe are overwhelmingly in favour of welcoming refugees to Europe and allowing them to restart their lives.” I think you will find this is not the case anymore .
Tariq I agree Europeans are in favour of resettling refugees unfortunately a large percentage of people using this Mediterranean route are economic migrants, up to 15% are from Nigeria
@michael. Only a matter of time. People are cottoning on to this new reality and they don’t like it. Migrants were welcomed with open arms and with the best of European Christian compassion. Migrants have bitten the hands that’s feeds them over and over, from Muslim bullying on street corners, riots, car burnings to rapes and terrorist attacks to,the fact that through the generations two thing remains the same, their religiousity and their welfare dependency. The backlash is starting and Europeans should never have been put in this position.
Most likely you would be robbed of anything valuable and left to die in the sun if the odds were reversed and they would be cheered on by fellow haters of infidels. You really need to learn more about what you want to unleash on Europe.
It’s the people smugglers / traffickers that the Navy is really helping: they now know they can send people out in any old un-seaworthy craft, and for sure, the Irish Navy will pick the passengers up and drop them off in Europe! Thanks Ireland!
All of the eu forces picking up these migrants are simply encouraging more. The Aussie’s have it right. Save them, yes, deliver them back to the safe beaches of Tripoli.
If you believe the first line of your rant Tariq you are seriously misguided..enough Is enough, how many is enough? If your honest you’d admit you want to see Europe’s population replaced with Muslims ? The Koran says to lie to non believers though so I’m not too optimistic..
Micheal and friends, what is with all this ‘extreme right’ guff you keep spouting about people whom you have no real idea about. I am amazed you haven’t brought out the racist and xenophobic cards that your left-wing buddies use in lieu of reasoned debate…and common sense.
One can only hope you grow out of your current adherence to received dogma. A couple of months away from the Guardian and Independent, and the BBC, would be a healthy start.
Oh great, another few hundred illegals who buy into a stone age philosophy where women cant show their faces, LGBT are ritually beaten, beheaded and persecuted, and anyone who doesn’t adhere to their religious beliefs are seen as nothing more than vermin, marvellous stuff!!
Have you ever considered the possibility that you’re a moron, Bill? You know, because of the moron things you say and the moronic way you say them? If it’s looks, walks and quacks like a duck…
Jay, have you ever heard the doctrine that if you resort to abusing another person that you have already lost the argument? But if I must resort to your child like temper tantrum tactics, perhaps if you are seeking morons you should look no further than your own reflection in the mirror!
But back to the issue at hand, so do you deny that women have to cover their faces in a huge majority of Islamic country’s?? Do you deny that LGBT are widely persecuted in the Islamic world??
Micheal, do you have anything substantive to say except resorting to insults? anything?
Please refute the facts that I have laid out, do you support the widespread oppression of women and oppression of LGBT in Islamic country’s???Or do you simply bury your head in the sand and deny these facts?
You believe its irrelevant that illegals that have come into the EU in their millions hold views where women and LGBT are treated with utter contempt? Would the over1,000 women sexually assaulted and raped in ONE NIGHT in Cologne by Muslims believe that this is irrelevant?
These people should be saved and then dispatched back to their country’s of origin and if they do want to come into the EU perhaps they should apply for asylum through the proper LEGAL channels.
Like I said these illegals should be rescued and then returned to their country of origin otherwise its sending the wrong single for tens of millions of other potential illegals across Africa and the middle east. How can you assess these people when a huge proportion are destroying any documents that may identify them.
Someone who advocates for border control isn’t far right, its actually quite sensible and reasonable policy to vet and control who you let into your country. The policy of “no borders” and free for all immigration is utopian far left extremism that wont work.
Yes and the far left and even middle are conceding that popularity and power as they refuse to act in a rational manner for fear of being labelled racist.
Michael, left wing extremists like yourself ultimately will drive people to the far right. I reiterate, advocating border controls isn’t right wing extremism, its a sensible, reasonable policy that only the dumbest of the dumb oppose
@ Michael for whatever reason you have succumbed to feminine politics which seeks to solve the problems of each individual at great cost to society. At some point society cannot take the burdens it seeks to address and even those it could have helped are swept away in the chaos. In the end everyone loses. Time to grow up Michael. The real world is calling.
I assumed you were all morons and I’m reassured to read through your subsequent comments confirming my beliefs entirely. Know that you are the absolute degenerate dregs of human society and hold our progress back as a species by your very existence. I’d try to educate you but I’d sooner teach a rock to sing.
@JayK When you said “morons” I hope you were including me in that!By the way- Your arguments are incredibly persuasive. Did you ever consider a career in speech writing or hostage negotiation?
Does anyone know the ratio of men to women coming over from North Africa? There’s a couple of Arab women in one pic and no Black African women. There are always lots of single men on these boats.
No. We’d be better letting the all drown, Michael, so you know… we’d, er… save their lives, or something.
It’s not that I don’t like the brown people and want them to stay in misery wherever they are from, it’s that I am a humanitarian, yeah, and, er… they need to remain where they are from for, er… non racist reasons.
So for the relatively wealthy, immigration has been a boon. There are more taxi drivers, more cleaners, more shop assistants, more nannies; in short, the service economy, the one that services the relative wealthy, booms. But are wages in that sector booming? No.
@ John Clark What have all those things you are moaning about got to do with one of our ships saving the lives of people who are in real peril at sea? They are so desperate or have been misled by people-smugglers’ false promises that they will attempt the crossing in any case. Would it suit you better if we just let them drown? And do you think you would be better off – getting a bigger wage or more dole – if we did that?
European and Irish asylum policies are not fit for purpose in the 21st century. This needs to become an electoral issue next time around. View , sign and share our petition on change.org or see our website.
Are you just talking to yourself again, Margie, or is that comment addressed to someone? And what makes you think you know anything about others’ circumstances? This is the Internet, you know.
@fintan. I’m glad you asked me that. It was in response to some tosh by tarik which the journal in their infinite wisdom, have taken down. That answer your question FO(O)L.
I think that saving human lives is the priority. It’s busy and hazardous activity. I don’t that you understand the actual challenges facing the Navy personnel. It is frantically busy. RTE did an excellent documentary on the work done.
Let not confuse things, the navy deserves to be applauded for the fine job they are doing saving lives. That’s their mission and they do it well. On the other hand, I’m beginning to doubt the landing policy behind it all. How many people are being dangerously invited onto the open seas by this policy, they might as well ‘rescue’ them directly off the beach and ferry them over, they should given supplies and be landed back on the nearest shore. It only going to get worse, beyond the capacity of rescue vessels. The level of tragedies that follow will be a consequence of these policies.
Noting the couple of red thumbs. I wonder would you consider it OK to set up a welcome post across a minefield and invite people to take a running chance., ‘it’ll be grand we have the means to lift some of you out of there’. They are people, safety has to be considered, they are not salmon on a weir, where we can pat ourselves on the back for the help we gave to survivors.
Salmon on a weir have never insisted we change our laws to suit them, Salomon on a weir do not practice sharia nor do they try to ingratiate themselves by using taqiyya to fool us into believing they appreciate all we have done for them while planning our demise? Of course they are scared but how long before some of you bleeding hearts realise that the phrase “eaten bread is soon forgotten” is based on fact.
Would you count the children among them as “clowns”.
I suppose it’s a big ask, but since you seem interested in fables, might I suggest you read Rumi’s poem about a frog and a mouse? It might take you a while to figure out the message in it, but I suppose you are still young enough to open your mind and broaden it.
Fantastic news! Well done to the Irish Naval Service for rescuing these refugees, it’s great to see the relief and joy on the faces of the women and children in that photograph. It’s a beautiful wonder to think how these children and then their own offspring will make huge contributions to sport, science, the arts, engineering, medicine and many more fields over the coming decades and centuries. Fáilte róimh go léir!!
Very,very well said Team Tariq,you’ve articulated the thoughts of the Irish people so eloquently once again. Hopefully the Irish navy can rescue many more and if we’re lucky enough we’ll benefit from their new lives on these shores. The Irish humanitarian spirit is alive and well!! Welcome Refugees!!!
Well they will probably end up staying in Italy and not coming to Ireland
Can’t see France of Britain taking them
Perhaps Germany and Sweden might take them
When ISIL is defeated and Libya has a more stable government might well be send back there
Libya needs them to rebuild after years of conflict more than we do
I saw a grand total of one woman and two children in those two photographs where the occupants can be identified and, honestly, neither the woman nor the two children look particularly happy.
Of course the majority of the occupants of both of those boats where the occupants can be identified are young males.
Given the staggering levels of welfare dependency of muslims in Europe along with their over representation in jails, your statement is as dumb as the rest of your Islamo babble Liam. Love the way you’ve ditched the ‘Muslim from Bradford’ account for good now. Oh the shame
Liam Tariq stop hiding behind taqiyya, you know full well that few if any of these migrants will take part in sports and certainly not the arts, in fact, they will want to do away with all forms of art. Try to be consistent about your religion and it’s true aims.
Well done to them and lets get them home quickly before this conflict escalates. They should never have been sent here in the first place.
The only navy we should be sending to this conflict is a civilian navy, Ireland as a neautral country should not be putting armed soldiers into the line of fire.
@will . So your saying if Ireland has a famine/war and India/africa had a great welfare system and was free from war we should all head there and not the first safest country on our travels . A bit leap by anyones imagination .
Migrants refugees gays queers there’s a nasty flip side to every thing as a gay guy I Perfer to see the good in all refugees. Believe me just like the Bosnian Serbs in the 90s they all went home bar 10 or 20 ireland isn’t that great of a country robert .
It is only right that we – an island nation – do what we can to save the lives of people who are in peril at sea.
@ Peter Fechter I’m not sure what your question means, but why shouldn’t anyone swop contact details unless military regulations specifically forbid it?
What exactly does being an island nation have to do with saving illegal migrants who choose to embark on dangerous and non-seaworthy vessels in the Mediterranean? Are we now also expecting the Cuban Navy to send some boats over because they’re an island nation as well so they’re also obliged?
Petr, I think that Jason is a very damaged personalitybas shown by his loving obsession with guns and extreme militarism, his extreme views on a cpvariety of topics and his evident lack of comprehension of fthe plight of victims of armed conflict. Jason always defends the US police when black people are shot dead.
Jason reserves his limited feelings for white Western conservatives.
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Ensure security, prevent and detect fraud, and fix errors 113 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
Your data can be used to monitor for and prevent unusual and possibly fraudulent activity (for example, regarding advertising, ad clicks by bots), and ensure systems and processes work properly and securely. It can also be used to correct any problems you, the publisher or the advertiser may encounter in the delivery of content and ads and in your interaction with them.
Deliver and present advertising and content 116 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
Certain information (like an IP address or device capabilities) is used to ensure the technical compatibility of the content or advertising, and to facilitate the transmission of the content or ad to your device.
Match and combine data from other data sources 85 partners can use this feature
Always Active
Information about your activity on this service may be matched and combined with other information relating to you and originating from various sources (for instance your activity on a separate online service, your use of a loyalty card in-store, or your answers to a survey), in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Link different devices 63 partners can use this feature
Always Active
In support of the purposes explained in this notice, your device might be considered as likely linked to other devices that belong to you or your household (for instance because you are logged in to the same service on both your phone and your computer, or because you may use the same Internet connection on both devices).
Identify devices based on information transmitted automatically 108 partners can use this feature
Always Active
Your device might be distinguished from other devices based on information it automatically sends when accessing the Internet (for instance, the IP address of your Internet connection or the type of browser you are using) in support of the purposes exposed in this notice.
Save and communicate privacy choices 91 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
The choices you make regarding the purposes and entities listed in this notice are saved and made available to those entities in the form of digital signals (such as a string of characters). This is necessary in order to enable both this service and those entities to respect such choices.
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