‘I didn’t think, I just jumped in to help,’ says man who saved woman and two children from drowning in River Lee

A man who saved a woman and her two children from drowning in their car in the River Lee said he was just in the right place at the right time.

“I’m not a hero. I’m just a man. Anybody would have done the same thing,” said Piotr Smolenski, 35, who has been living in Cork for eight years.

He was speaking yesterday as he revisited the scene of the near-tragedy.