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# Life-saver

Last year
2022
# Irish Air Corps
Farmer gored by bull recalls how Irish Air Ambulance saved his life
The Emergency Aeromedical Service is based in Athlone and is staffed by Irish Air Corps and National Ambulance Service staff.
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# Life-saver
'I wouldn’t have had a hope without it...I’d be a goner': Deise hurler wants oxygen tanks at all GAA grounds
An Rinn’s Eoghan Breathnach suffered a serious injury in a junior club hurling game on Easter Sunday.
Gig-goer rescues man from Liffey after concert in the 3Arena
Paul Downes rescued the man on Wednesday night.
This fruit smells like rotting onions and tastes like pulled pork but could save millions from starvation
If you just eat 10 or 12 bulbs of this fruit, you don’t need food for another half a day.
# get outa the water
Here's what to do if you're ever attacked by a shark
Poke it in the eye, hit it on its nose – what’s the correct advice in this unlikely scenario.
# a hero comes along
If you're going to have a heart attack, this officer's a good person to be standing next to
CPR-trained Sergeant Simon Harman just happened to be nearby, when 17-year-old Hollie Tillbrook collapsed in a restaurant.
'Only for you, I'd be visiting a graveside and not a bedside'
The woman who saved a man by starting CPR when he went into cardiac arrest has met with him and his wife.
The TV documentary that saved this woman from cancer
When Brigid Broekhoven signed up to Tv3′s ‘Doctor in the House’ programme, she had no idea it would end in a cancer diagnosis.
# USA
Bus driver saves woman from jumping off bridge
Darnell Barton spotted the woman while he was carrying students to high school on his bus.
# Life-saver
Derek Mooney saves a man’s life… for the second time
RTE DJ saves man after he collapses from his bike on the M3 motorway last week.
# Ouch!
'Lucky' Rochdale keeper thanks opponent for saving his life
Sheffield United striker Richard Cresswell was first to react to David Lucas’s injury at Bramall Lane on Saturday.