'A complete waste of resources': Investigations underway into hoax emergency call

A hoax caller has been slated for potentially putting lives at risk when emergency services spent two hours searching a fast-flowing waterway in Co. Meath.

'A complete waste of resources': Investigations underway into hoax emergency call

A hoax caller has been slated for potentially putting lives at risk when emergency services spent two hours searching a fast-flowing waterway in Co. Meath.

A garda investigation is now underway after ambulance crews, gardaí, fire services and the Meath River Rescue personnel were all deployed to extensively comb a central area in Navan where the caller said a man had jumped off a bridge into the River Blackwater

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