Killed ambulance medic honoured with garden

A GARDEN of remembrance was unveiled at the weekend in honour of an ambulance paramedic who died in the line of duty.

John O’Mahony, a leading Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) with Clonakilty Ambulance Service in Co Cork, died on September 16, 2005, when the ambulance he was driving crashed on the main Cork to Bandon road while transferring a patient.

Mr O’Mahony died at the scene. His colleague, Joe Tobin, was seriously injured.