Hero boys save girl from drowning

Three 14-year-old boys have been hailed as heroes after they went to the rescue of a teenage girl who was lying face down in the sea at Balbriggan Harbour.

“If it wasn’t for their quick thinking and actions it could have been a very different story,” said a spokesperson for Skerries Coast Guard, which responded to the incident with the Irish Coast Guard helicopter and Dublin Fire Brigade.

Shelomith Freeman, 13, remains in intensive care in Temple Street Children’s Hospital.