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I was PARALYSED at the BEACH

ook at where we are,’ I boasted to the camera.

After panning my phone around to capture the beautiful blue water and clear skies, I sent the video to my family back home in Ireland.

It was New Year’s Eve 2014, and my wife Rita, then 31, and I were at Kings Beach in I transferred to the Australian Defence Force.

We were due in Brisbane to see in the new year, so after lunch, I grabbed my bodyboard

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