Duty calls for Shane in life-or-death mission

The call of duty is never an easy one, as Lieutenant Shane Mulcahy can bear testimony to.

On the Mediterranean Sea, he witnessed at first hand the desperate faces of migrants fleeing war-torn regions, some with amputations to prove it, along with women and children packed into sinking crafts with no lifejackets.

At the same time, as rescued migrants were being brought aboard the LÉ Eithne, he was constantly thinking of his young wife back at home, Kate, who had recently been diagnosed with cancer.