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‘He just looked at me and said “save the baby”’
When a car went off a pier at Buncrana County in Donegal, Davitt Walsh swam out to help. He managed to save a baby girl, but she was the only survivor. The other five people in the car, including three young children, died.
First broadcast: The Breakfast Show, BBC Radio Foyle, 22 March 2016
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