Galway Bay fm newsroom – A fisherman aboard a boat off the west coast has been taken to hospital in Galway.
The 30-year old foreign national complained of abdominal difficulty around 10 o’ clock this morning.
The doctor based on the Aran Islands alerted the coastguard, which dispatched the Sligo 118 helicopter to the scene, about 20 miles west of Hags Head.
The fisherman was wenched onto the helicopter from the ‘Arkh Angel’ fishing trawler around noon.
He was taken to University Hospital Galway for treatment.