A rugby coach who had a heart attack on holiday returned to thank the doctor who saved his life and was told: "You were knocking at those (heavenly) gates a few times and we weren't letting you go in".
Father-of-two Mark Lang suffered three cardiac arrests and was revived each time by a team involving a consultant cardiologist at Cork University Hospital.
Mr Lang’s wife Julie, 51, believes her husband would not have survived had the holidaying couple not been staying within minutes of the hospital.
The couple, from Ormskirk near Wigan, had been enjoying a night out in Cork city in Ireland in February when the health emergency began.
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