{"id":218333,"date":"2025-12-06T09:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T09:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/218333\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T09:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T09:41:09","slug":"garda-who-risked-life-to-save-man-in-river-barrow-admits-he-felt-terrified-but-knew-he-could-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/218333\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda who risked life to save man in River Barrow admits he \u2018felt terrified\u2019 but knew he could do it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sergeant Fergal O\u2019Connor is awarded a bronze medal and a Certificate of Bravery for his actions at the National Bravery Awards 2025 with Jenny O'Connor. Photo: Maxwell\u2019s\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/efcc24fb-4f1e-4669-969c-8cf4c20877f5.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Sergeant Fergal O\u2019Connor is awarded a bronze medal and a Certificate of Bravery for his actions at the National Bravery Awards 2025 with Jenny O&#8217;Connor. Photo: Maxwell\u2019s<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A garda sergeant now stationed in Waterford, who risked his life to rescue a man from the River Barrow in Carlow, has spoken of what his heroic actions took out of him as he was awarded a National Bravery Award at a ceremony in Leinster House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Garda Sergeant Fergal O\u2019Connor was awarded a bronze medal and a certificate of bravery on Friday in recognition of his heroism in saving the drowning man six years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sergeant Fergal O\u2019Connor is awarded a bronze medal and a Certificate of Bravery for his actions at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,25972,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-218333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-eoin-kelleher","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115671969641961953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}