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Surfer in critical condition in hospital
A surfer who went missing off the north west coast on Monday is in a critical condition in hospital.
A major search and rescue operation immediately got under way after the man's board was washed up on the beach at Downhill in Co Londonderry at about 1pm.
Around 45 minutes later a helicopter spotted him in the sea and from there he was taken to shore by an inshore lifeboat were he was given oxygen by the lifeboat crew and Coastguard rescue team before being taken to Coleraine Hospital.
There are no further details at present.
Meanwhile, a Co Down fisherman has died after falling from a harbour in the north of England.
Mickey O'Boyle, 47, from Kilclief, is thought to have fallen into a fishing boat moored at Whitehaven docks in Cumbria early on Sunday.
Police say Mr O’Boyle’s death is not being treated as suspicious.
(MB/KMcA)
A major search and rescue operation immediately got under way after the man's board was washed up on the beach at Downhill in Co Londonderry at about 1pm.
Around 45 minutes later a helicopter spotted him in the sea and from there he was taken to shore by an inshore lifeboat were he was given oxygen by the lifeboat crew and Coastguard rescue team before being taken to Coleraine Hospital.
There are no further details at present.
Meanwhile, a Co Down fisherman has died after falling from a harbour in the north of England.
Mickey O'Boyle, 47, from Kilclief, is thought to have fallen into a fishing boat moored at Whitehaven docks in Cumbria early on Sunday.
Police say Mr O’Boyle’s death is not being treated as suspicious.
(MB/KMcA)
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