 I have a very special guest in studio who has a story to tell Rory Creedy, Rory, good morning. Rory, Rory, you were in Raph Monon yesterday and you, not to put too fine a point on it, you saved the lives of three girls. Yeah, okay. Yeah, okay, tell us the story the way, because I've been looking at the briefing note here and this is a phenomenal story. So in your own time and in your own way tell us the story. Okay, so yesterday, myself and the family, my wife and my daughter, Eve, she's three and my niece Sophie and sister Dara, we all headed off to the beach. Very busy day at the beach. You know, usual, you know, sunbathing, ice creams, you know, taking a few dips in the water. So it was coming towards the end of the day and I decided I'll go back in for another quick dip before we go. So I started to walk towards the beach and I kind of noticed it was very busy. So there was a scan on the beach looking for a gap in the water, you know, that I could make my way in and not be on top of anyone, you know? Yeah. And what, it was a little bit quieter over where the ferry pulls in on the ramp, okay? In hindsight, that's not the best place to go for a dip and there is signs and there's flags and everything, but I just, just whatever reason, I thought I'm going in for a paddle walk and there was people already in there as well. So I went in and I was, I walked into my hips and I was, you know, the usual, you're trying to build up the courage to take your dip, you know, it's going to be cold and you're thinking, you know, kind of edging in slowly. And then I noticed a few meters in the distance was three girls were struggling in the water. So one of the girls was completely under and then I saw the panic in one of the other little girls' faces and she just, you know, like I tell, she was tired, she was asking for help. So I went in towards them and then quickly became like realized, oh, I'm completely out of my depth here, there's no, I can't feel the sand anymore, which was kind of, I didn't realize how deep it was going to get, how fast it was going to get deep. And so I put my arm around the first girl and then I kind of, I had my kind of two, I had two of them, you know, from behind, like at the shoulders and the girl that was submerged, I was like, I don't know what I'm going to do here, I'm going to have to bring the two girls in and then come back for the third girl. But she, but somehow the third girl managed to hang on to the leg of one of the other girls. So as we were paddling back, she just comes up through the top, takes a big breath. And then it became apparent, like I've got three people here. I'm not making any progress very fast. And I started to get into trouble myself. I was going under a lot myself, but I was trying to let them use me as a buoyancy aid or whatever. And at one time I had to break away from them and come back to them. I was trying to get underneath them because I could reach the floor. So I was pushing them up and I was very conscious of this girl that was under, she was mostly under and I was afraid of her, like if she, you know, but somehow we got in. But the whole time we were paddling in, I was trying to shout for help, nobody noticed. And it felt like nobody noticed anything anyway. The current was taking me towards the pier as well. So as I was moving and kicking, I felt like I was making very little progress. I was almost staying in the one spot, but also being pulled into the deeper water, behind the ramp. So even if somebody could have thrown me, it was a point where even a t-shirt, you know, could have pulled us all in. But we got in, we got in anyway. And you managed to do it under your own steam, even though you had been, I mean, you'd been calling for help and they had been calling for help. I mean, you reckon some of the people around the beach actually assumed you were missing? Like I went to talk to somebody, like the girls ran to their parents and I just stayed at the side to catch my breath. And my instinct was just to ask everybody then that was around. There was loads of people around. Yeah. Did you see that? Like, you know, did you see what just happened? And the oblivious, there was a guy on his phone. He said, I'm so sorry, I didn't see anything. There was another guy there sitting on the ramp. And he said, I thought you knew them. I don't know what he meant by that, but he probably just meant that. I thought this was just, you know, play or something. So I suppose it's just to be aware of that particular area in the beach and... And you didn't know the girls. I mean, have you spoken to them since or spoken to their families or spoken to their parents or... Yeah, I went up to the parents initially afterwards and we were all in a bit of shock and I think it was just all a bit raw at that point. So we just said it was the girls okay and they were okay and they were a bit shook or whatever, but they came back up to me then because we were sitting, you know, quite close to each other on the beach. So they came back up towards maybe an hour later and we talked about it a bit more in depth then and just, you know, everybody was a bit emotional and stuff like that. And it's quite clear that you're still feeling, I mean, you know, this is not something you just pass off nonchalantly and go, but I've gone about your day. I mean, this is having a huge impact on you too. Like you don't see it, you see it on TV. It's very different, you're in those kind of situations. And you're conscious too that, you know, it could have been a bad outcome for them, but I mean, you know, and let's call it a spade of spade. It could have been a bad outcome for you too, because I mean, the way you were being pulled in toward that jetty and that current that's going against you, you know, had you been pulled in there, that could have put you at risk. Yeah, that became that. Like I was very confident at the start. And you can imagine that confidence just getting smaller and smaller as the event went on. And you're kind of thinking, oh God, like. And I'm sure, I'm not sure how much sleep you had last night. Not much, yeah, I'm raising my eyes. Yeah, and it's going to be, you know, and obviously it's going to take a while, you know, for you to come to terms with the enormity of this and, you know, somewhere down the line, I would be very surprised if there wasn't some form of recognition and so on and so forth, but that's obviously for another day. And, you know, that's maybe a conversation that we'll have and maybe at some point in the future, we'll have the conversation again when the initial emotional shock of it is gone. But I mean, Ruri, you know, all I can say is, look, there are three people alive. Well, there's four people alive today, but there are three girls alive today that might not be alive were it not for you. And, you know, that's, that's, once you've processed that knowledge, I mean, I think you can, you know, you know yourself that you have saved lives here and that is a phenomenal thing. And look, fair play to you and well done to you. And again, I don't know if you heard any of the show where you're on, we were speaking to John MacArthur from the Oran L.I. And he was saying, look, if you were ever on the side of the water and you see a potential situation, if don't, he said, don't ever think, I wonder what if maybe, should I always make the call? Is it always call? I mean, the first thing you do is you call 999 and you make the call and say there is a problem. And as he said, look, if we get called out on a lifeboat and it turns out it's a log floating in the water, we are happy to turn back. But, you know, and what you've did yesterday is a salatory and this is a very practical and salatory lesson that if you saw people in trouble and you responded, and I think that's a piece of self-knowledge that you can with, I'd say the word pride, that you can, you know that when you were faced with a situation, you reacted that way. And look, hats off, you know, well, well, well, well, well, it's a hard, and I know it's hard to process this. It's rough, yeah. It is, and it's gonna take a while, I'm sure. And, you know, maybe from your own point of view, maybe it wouldn't be any harm to sit down and talk to someone about it. But look, you will do so in the knowledge that you have saved lives. And that is a special precious thing. Oh, thank you. Rory, thank you indeed. Thanks very much. And just the message, just be careful, look out for each other. Stay away from that ramp, it's dangerous. Stay within between the flags. If you see somebody struggling, tell somebody before you go. If there's anybody close by, just tell them. Rory Creely, thank you indeed for speaking to us and thank you for what you've done. Thanks. I can think of nothing else to say and really, I think there is nothing else to say except thank you to all our participants on the show today.