Bogged down student in lucky escape

A Junior Cert student was lucky to escape with his life early yesterday morning when he became bogged down in mud flats in an estuary as the tide was rising.

Gardaí believe that if the alarm had been raised 20 minutes later, the 15-year-old boy could have drowned.

They also said he could thank the good sense of a concerned member of the public who contacted gardaí after hearing shouting coming from the estuary near Midleton, Co Cork.