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‘The two luckiest Girls in Galway’

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Knowledge of how to read the sea is a rare gift. Patrick Oliver, one the last of the Claddagh fishermen, who once had a fleet of 200 boats in the bay, carries on the family tradition successfully catching lobster and crab. Patrick knows the local coastal waters like few others. When on Thursday morning August 13 2020, he heard that the two young women, Sara Feeney (23) and Ellen Glynn (17), who had set out from Furbo beach on their inflatable paddle boards the evening before, were still missing, he phoned his brother Dave who had been out all night on the Galway lifeboat searching.

Galway rescue father and son team honoured by Mayor

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The heroic achievements of Patrick and Morgan Oliver were celebrated at a socially-distanced Mayoral reception in Leisureland last week.

Rescue story acts as reminder of power of the sea, says grateful family

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The dramatic rescue of two local paddle-boarders last week made headlines around the world due to the duration of their time in the water, but the core message of it is the power of the sea and the bravery of those who use it, according to the family of young Sara Feeney.

 

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