'Eventful day': Teens praised for quick thinking in Cork rescue

The teens who were fishing in a rib at White Bay, near Roches Point, rushed to the scene to save the father who was left clinging to a marker buoy. Picture: Denis Minihane.

One of the teenagers who assisted in the rescue of a man who had gotten into difficulties in the sea off Roches Point in Cork on Sunday has said that they had “an eventful day.” 

Richard McSweeney (16), told The Pat Kenny Show on Newstalk that he and his friends Jamie Venner, Cillian Foster, Kate Horgan and Harry Pritchard had been out fishing in White Bay when they heard the call for assistance on the boat’s radio.