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TWO TOURISTS WERE injured after falling while climbing the cliffs at Howth in north county Dublin.
The Coast Guard was called to the scene shortly before 5pm today and found one of the two had fallen some 150 feet down the cliffs onto the beach below.
Coast Guard medics and a HSE paramedic stabilised him before he was taken to Tallaght Hospital for treatment by the Coast Guard helicopter. His condition is not yet known.
Rescuers also found a teenage boy screaming for help some 20 feet from the top of the cliffs in a dangerous and precarious position. A rope was lowered to secure him ahead of the arrival of the Coast Guard helicopter, which winched him to safety. The teenager was found to have minor injuries.
The Coast Guard has called on people to stay on the cliff path at Howth and to call 999 if they see someone in danger.
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Good news. Now if only someone would tell the PSNI to take on the UDA and UVF mafias.
@Seán Óg: yeah all 2500 members!
@Seán Óg: the UDA/UFF have close links with the PSNI and always had a change of name didn’t change anything
@frank_1916: Where’s your proof of that, and the PSNI are a vastly superior Police Service to the old RUC. You’re never bloody happy, and you’d still be giving out even if the Gardai were the Police Service up North.
@Aaron Jones: 12500
Every gun they take out of circulation is a help.
The NewIRA are cowards They don’t speak for 99% of people on the island
@johnbrady: I think you’re being overly generous with your 1% there
@johnbrady: 99.9999%
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