MAN RESCUED FROM GALWAY BAY

Date Published: 21-May-2008

A man is in a stable condition at University Hospital Galway after losing a finger on board a tanker in Galway Bay this afternoon. Galway RNLI Lifeboat was called out to Danish registered tanker "The Dagmar Theresa" around 12.30 - shortly after the accident occured.Galway Lifeboat was launched at 12.40 and ferried the injured man and the severed finger to a waiting ambulance at Galway Docks.The man, a foreign national, was taken to University Hospital Galway where he is now in a stable condition.