Hero fishermen rescue woman in Cork City after car enters water at Kennedy Quay 

As the car floated down the river, two fishermen onboard a tied-up trawler jumped in and broke the back window of the car and rescued her

Divers from the Mallow Search and Rescue Unit arrived later and attached straps to the car, which was lifted from the river later. Picture: Jim Coughlan.

Two foreign fishermen and a port worker have been hailed as heroes after they dived into the freezing River Lee and saved a woman whose car had entered the water.

Belgian nationals, Farid Langens and Kevin Roos, crewmen on separate Belgian-flagged trawlers, and quayside operative, William Ross, all dived into the river at Cork’s Kennedy Quay, climbed onto the car, secured it with a rope, smashed its rear window and pulled the woman to safety just before lunchtime on Monday.