Garda hero in high-speed delivery

A GARDA has been hailed a hero for using a shoelace to tie the umbilical cord of a baby born during morning rush hour at traffic lights near Galway city.
Proud parents Emma Miskell and Sean Flynn from Cloondahamper, Lavally, Tuam realised that their speeding to University Hospital Galway was in vain, even with a Garda escort, when baby Darcy Mae arrived in the front seat of their car four kilometres from the hospital.

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