Ice-cream van to the rescue on Portmarnock beach

An ice-cream van came to the rescue at Portmarnock beach in Dublin on Wednesday.

The van was used by Dublin Fire Brigade to transport a man who got a fish-hook caught in his foot.

“Our truck couldn’t get on the sand, it was too heavy for the sand, it would have sank,” said a spokesman for Dublin Fire Brigade.

Thanks to Mark's Ice Cream of #Portmarnock Beach for allowing his van to be commandeered to transport a patient from the beach. #SuperCool pic.twitter.com/rxmmjIIJPr
— Dublin Fire Brigade (@DubFireBrigade) June 20, 2017

“So one of the paramedics got in the back of the ice-cream truck and just went down to the man. Our fire crew met him at a safer place at the back of the golf course.”