Valentia Coastguard have coordinated a medical evacuation from cargo ship off the Kerry coast.
The Liberian cargo ship (Palau) was transiting from Murmansk in Russia to Vila Do Conde in Brazil - when a person took ill around 110 miles off the Kerry Coast.
The alarm was raised overnight and Valentia coastguard tasked the Waterford based rescue-117 helicopter to the bulk carrier - which had re positioned to around 7 miles off Skellig.
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Rescue-117 conducted the medevac of a 33 year-old man from the vessel at around 7.30am and the Ukrainian national has been airlifted to UHK.
