Sports stars in the driving seat for emergency services showcase

Sports stars Ronan O’Gara and Graham Canty will be caught up in the drama this weekend as one of the largest ever emergency services showcases in Ireland is staged.

An armed naval team will board a suspected drug-running boat, firefighters will call for back-up to fight a quay-side inferno, and well-known sports and media personalities will be cut from the wrecks of two crashed cars during the simulated events on Cork’s Kennedy Quay on Saturday.

The land, water, and airborne exercises will be staged as part of the weekend-long Statutory and Voluntary Emergency Services Exhibition, which will be based at City Hall.