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7th November 2018
07:58am GMT

"We were rushing from Grafton Street down here and across the canal and a swan just mistook the road for the canal because it’s blizzarding rain down there. "It just landed on the road right in front of a taxi cab and trucks were coming and bikes were swerving and I said ‘pull the car over!' "Fortunately I had lovely tweed jacket that I had just done a television interview in and that was perfect for getting a swan safely under it and ran him back to the canal and released him."Noel shared footage of the rescue on Twitter, where he said that the swan was "now happy and safe at home." He captioned the video:
"On route to the next interview in Dublin this afternoon and we came across this poor confused fella who was stuck in the middle of the main road. "Having experienced many Swan rescues down the years I knew I could help... mission accomplished...now happy and safe at home x"
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