Terry Prone: Gratitude to brave sea rescue workers who risk their lives for us

It was also the week that Joe Biden reminded us that — whether we're locked in lockdown, or flocking to the pub — Ireland's unofficial national motto seems to be 'libation once again'

US president Joe Biden meeting Pope Francis at the Vatican on Friday. Mr Biden's joke, that he may be the only Irishman who never drank alcohol, should give the nation pause for thought. Picture: Vatican Media/AP

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When you live on a promontory jutting into the sea north of Dublin Bay, the Coast Guard search and rescue helicopter is a constant. It always seems to be racketing past, particularly at weekends, its sound diminishing as it progresses.