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On a sunny August afternoon, while many of his college friends were lying on some beach or relaxing on a foreign holiday, Doonbeg medical student, Oran McInerney, was two tenths of a second from a massacre. He was in the middle of a firing range in eastern Ukraine, training locals in basic first aid, when a cluster munition fired from a Russian fighter jet fell from the sky and almost literally hit him on the head. What happened next was chaos. Cluster bombs are vicious killers. On detonation, the bombs divide into dozens of smaller munitions and kill brutally and indiscriminately. But cluster bombs also fire forward, and on that fateful day, the Russian pilot pressed the detonator a fraction of a second too late, raining terror on the land just behind Oran and the people he was training. Earlier this month Oran returned from his third humanitarian tour in Ukraine. His first trip was in April of 2023 with …
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