WYSOX — The Wysox Township Board of Supervisors held its reorganizational meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 2, the first meeting to include recently-elected Supervisor Victor Franklin.
A garda had an unusual start to his night shift in Connemara late last week when he came across a couple in some distress.
Garda Eric Carney was passing an unmanned Garda station at Letterfrack, Co Galway, on Thursday on when he spotted a parked car.
Peter Gannon had been on his way to Mayo General Hospital in Castlebar with his wife Kelly, when he had been forced to pull in.
“I stopped to check if everything was OK,” Garda Carney recalled yesterday.
“And there was a poor man on the phone to ambulance control.
“I was told the ambulance coming from Swinford, Co Mayo, would be 50 minutes.
“I was told the ambulance coming from Swinford, Co Mayo, would be 50 minutes.
“Peter then got a paramedic on the phone, who was trying to give him instructions, but he couldn’t hear anything in the wind. So I took the phone and held it, while he followed the paramedic’s advice, and the two of us delivered the baby.”
The garda took a lace from dad Peter’s shoe to tie around the baby’s umbilical cord, and Kelly’s sister-in-law Noeleen arrived with fresh towels.
“I have four kids myself so it’s not something new to me, and I am trained in first aid at work,” he said.
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