Past pupil in flying visit

A HIGH-FLYING past pupil dropped in to visit his old school yesterday — in his Coast Guard helicopter.

And winchman Neville Murphy brought several emergency services colleagues with him.

There was huge excitement in St Patrick’s Boys National School in Skibbereen in West Cork as the mighty Waterford-based Coast Guard Helicopter EI-SAR, a Sikorsky S61N which has the call-sign Rescue 117, landed in a field near the school just before 2pm.