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

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.