SIR - Yesterday evening (27/09/07) I was travelling by car from Ballymoney to attend a funeral service in the Church of St. Patrick and St. Brigid in Ballycastle accompanied by a lady driver, a friend of the bereaved man's sister.
When passing through the village of Dervock we got a burst tyre and stopped the car.
Being myself a disabled pensioner we were at a loss what do to. Just then, along came three young lads who witnessed our predicament and asked if they could help.
Now, they may not like to be called ‘Angels of Mercy’, but to us that is just what they were. We couldn’t believe our luck.
We welcomed them with open arms, whereupon they opened the car boot, hauled out the spare tyre, gathered up the tools, jacked up the car and in no time, replaced the new tyre with cool efficiency.
Needless to say we were overwhelmed with gratitude for all their kindness.
We felt the least we could do was to offer them some tangible token of our sincere appreciation of the trouble and time they had taken to help us out, but despite all our protestations there was no way they could be persuaded to accept anything.
We don’t know their names, but we would just like to say how refreshing it is to realise that there is still so much genuine goodness to be found in our young people today.
‘Good Samaritans’ in truth!
Yours etc.,
Canon Dominic McHugh,
79 Castle Street,
Ballymoney.
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