Young farmer ‘in right place at right time’ to save lobster fisherman’s life

A young farmer believes he was simply "in the right place at the right time" when he heard a drowning fisherman’s cry for help, a half-mile away.

John Grant was tending to sheep near Clonmany in Co Donegal on Sunday afternoon. He briefly thought he heard a cry for help in the distance. He jumped on his quad bike and headed towards the sea.

He asked other walkers on Tullagh Beach if they had heard someone crying for help, but they said they had not. John continued to listen for the voice and when he looked out to sea he saw a man in the distance waving his arms for help.