Sink or swim time for Hayes

Sometimes a sportsman escapes the ghetto at the back of the newspaper and makes it to the front, though it isn’t always for the right reasons.

That wasn’t the case a couple of weeks ago for Clare keeper Joe Hayes, when... well, let him tell you about it.

“I was on the way to work in Limerick,” said the garda. “I just happened to be in the right place at the right time, a girl went into the river.