'We stayed on beach while fires burned around us': Irish man in Australia recounts wildfire horror

An Irish man living in Australia has spoken about his experience after being caught up in the wildfires ravaging the eastern coast of the country.

'We stayed on beach while fires burned around us': Irish man in Australia recounts wildfire horror

An Irish man living in Australia has spoken about his experience after being caught up in the wildfires ravaging the eastern coast of the country.

Diarmuid O'Connor from Ennis in Co Clare spoke to Damien O'Reilly this morning on Today with Sean O'Rourke on RTÉ Radio 1 as he was stuck in evacuation traffic on the Princes Highway in New South Wales.

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