Garda hailed a hero as elderly man rescued from house fire

A GARDA was last night hailed a hero after he saved the life of a 79-year-old man trapped in a house fire.

Garda Roger O’Donoghue, from Newcastlewest Garda Station in Co Limerick, dragged the pensioner to safety through a window of his burning cottage on the Barna side of Newcastlewest at 5am yesterday morning.

Originally from Yorkshire in England, John Wray was living alone and was asleep in his downstairs bedroom when a fire started in the kitchen.