'It's incredible what they can do time-wise' - Community-funded air ambulance already saving lives

Just days before his accident, Liam O'Riordan was on a fundraising truck-run to help get Ireland's first community-funded air ambulance in the air.

Little did he think as he climbed a ladder to paint his home just a stone's thrown from the air ambulance base near Millstreet in North Cork five weeks ago today, that he would become its first patient after breaking his back in a fall.