Hero who saved baby from drowning speaks to GMB
The father got back in the car and he looked at me and he just said ‘save the baby’ and the next thing - gone - the car just disappeared
The hero responsible for saving a baby from a car which sank in Donegal, killing five people, joins GMB today to talk of how the horrific events unfolded and his heartache over not being able to save the whole family.
Davitt Walsh, from the village of Kerrykeel in County Donegal, had been for a walk with his girlfriend when he saw the car sinking after it had plunged off the pier. The pair ran down to the slip-way where a by-stander asked them to swim out to try and help. The baby girl was passed through a window by her father before he perished with the car's four passengers.
Driver Sean McGrotty, 46, drowned alongside his sons Mark, 12, and Evan, eight, his mother-in-law Ruth Daniels, 57, and her 15-year-old daughter Jodie Lee Daniels.
The baby's mother Louise James was away on a hen weekend in Liverpool and will today be meeting Davitt for the first time as she comes to terms with losing her husband, two sons, mother and sister.