EMERGENCY SERVICES ALERTED TO MAN ON DANGEROUS LEDGE IN CITY

Date Published: 12-Oct-2008

Galway Gardaí, the Fire Brigade and a Lifeboat crew were alerted last evening when a man was spotted standing on a ledge over the water in the city centre.They spoke to the man who was on the dangerous ledge at O'Brien's Bridge and encouraged him to move off the spot where he was in danger of going into the water.It was feared that the man was about to go into the water of swollen city river but Gardai convinced him to move off the bridge.