Boy, 7, saved after floating 1km out to sea

Heroic holidaymaker to the rescue as inflatable dinghy 'pulled out quickly by the wind' on Dingle beach
Boy, 7, saved after floating 1km out to sea

A gusty offshore wind swept the little boy’s dinghy away from his parents and out into the harbour.

A seven-year-old boy who floated 1km out to sea on an inflatable dinghy yesterday was rescued by a heroic holidaymaker who saw the boy in distress from the shore.

David Finn from Cork was at Smerwick beach outside Dingle yesterday afternoon on a family holiday when a gusty offshore wind swept the little boy’s dinghy away from his parents and out into the harbour.

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