Children rescued after sea drift

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Three children have been rescued from a canoe which drifted a mile-and-a-half out to sea off the coast of Donegal.

The alarm was raised by their parents near Buncrana at about 2000 BST on Saturday.

Joe Joyce, from the RNLI in Lough Swilly, said the children were "a bit frightened when they were rescued".

"They couldn't steer the boat and it started taking them further and further from shore."

Mr Joyce added: "We administered some basic first aid - we wrapped them in thermal blankets - and brought them back to the shore to their parents."