A woman has described the incredible tale of four strangers coming together to help a young man who was in distress at a local bridge.
Susan was on the way to her local supermarket on Friday when she spotted the man, a 33 year-old father of two, looking over the railings.
On the way back from the shop 40 minutes later, the man was still there - and Susan's gut feeling told her something was wrong.
Speaking on the Ryan Tubridy Show on RTE Radio One, Susan described the incredible story of how herself and three others got the man to safety.
She said: "When I was coming home forty minutes later he was still there. The traffic was quite slow. I could see that he had been crying.
"My gut feeling just said to me, that guy is not well. He needs some help, he needs a hug, he just needs someone to talk to.
"There was lots of traffic so I went down the road because I just said to myself, what if I hear the next day that someone had died at that particular spot. I would never forgive myself for not going back to him.
"So I parked up my car and walked back up to him. I just asked him was he okay and he shook his head.
"And where he was, lots of people had driven by and had walked by him. I suppose I'm just thinking, if it was me and I was so upset, I would like someone to come and say to me are you okay?"
Fortunately, two boys from the local secondary school stopped to help Susan.
She said: "He shook his head and I said okay, I need some help here. There were two students coming home from school, from a local secondary school.
"One of them approached and said are you okay? I shook my head and said no and then he said to guy, are you okay buddy?
"And the guy still wasn't talking he just shook his head.
"Another student came along and said were we okay and I took that opportunity when the two kids, essentially that's what they are, secondary school kids, to ring the guards.
"They said that a call had been put in place. So we were just there trying to talk to him, saying to him that everything's okay."
Susan and the boys told the man their names and tried to get him talking but he "had his head in his hands and he was just so distraught."
She added: "I don't know where the words came from within me, I just said there's lots of people out there, there's lots of help out there, people care about you, we care about you. I didn't know this guy but I said we care about you, the two boys care about you.
"The two boys, they were very very good in the words they had used."
A bus driver than arrived and helped Susan and the two boys move the man to safety.
The gardai arrived to the scene followed by an ambulance.
"So the guards came and they asked if he wanted to go into their car because it was quite cold at this stage and he said no and an ambulance was called," said Susan.
"He finally did sit into the car and the ambulance did come then.
"So I emailed in yesterday, I didn't expect to be on your show today but I just emailed in to say I hope he got the help that he needs.
"I don't know where he is now but he's still alive."
Susan praised the two teenagers from the secondary school and said they acted "so mature".
She said: "They were tremendous.
"I rang the school and I spoke to the principle and I said it's nothing bad, it's something good. I only knew the boys two first names, I didn't know the year they were in, I knew they lived locally.
"I just said I want to just explain the situation and he said he hadn't heard anything about the incident but he knew who the boys were.
"Because who knows, maybe they want to talk to someone about it.
"They were so good, they were so mature in the way they dealt with it."
Susan urged people to go with their gut feeling when they see a stranger who is upset.
She said: "I take from it, when you see someone who maybe is, I don't mean upset, but just to say hello to people and to say are you okay and be genuine with that and if you have a gut feeling that they are not okay.
"Just go with your gut feeling if you see someone who is upset, who is in distress.
"Maybe all they just want is for someone to say, are you okay?"
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