Volunteer talks down '11 or 12 people' at Cliffs of Moher

A member of the Doolin unit of the Irish Coast Guard has helped talk down “11 or 12 people” contemplating taking their own lives at the the Cliffs of Moher.

Thomas Doherty has been a volunteer with the unit for 30 years and said that over the course of that time, he has talked down 11 or 12 people from the cliff edge, “from an 80-year-old woman to a woman in her 40s”.

Mr Doherty, from Doolin, said: “Anybody that has been on the edge has come back for me. It is a good success rate actually. I hope it stays that way.”