Watch: Limerick man and US tourist he saved from drowning in 1960s reunited for first time
Fifty-six years after his lifeless body was pulled from a canal in Limerick city, New York father of four, Michael Downes, finally got to meet his rescuer, and say “thank you”.
The Brooklyn native was seven years old when he slipped and fell into the Canal Bank in Corbally, while visiting his Irish relatives, in July 1963.
