Two men who came to the rescue of a man who fell into Dublin’s Royal Canal last week have been hailed as heroes after bravely putting their own lives at risk.
A woman named Catherine told Liveline on RTE Radio 1 that last Wednesday at 4pm she was walking along a stretch of the canal in Phibsboro when she noticed one young man lowering another by the arm into the water. She told Joe Duffy: "He reached in twice, first he didn’t find the man under the water, and the second time he did find him and pulled him up."
Catherine said she later learned that two young heroes were called Mark and Gavin, and it was Mark who pulled the man from the water. Catherine rang an ambulance for assistance, and emergency services including Dublin Fire Brigade arrived at the scene to treat the man.
