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A hero delivery-man dad saved his baby’s life by making a very special delivery at the side of a road.

Gareth Lynch, was forced to take emergency action when he realised the umbilical cord was wrapped around little Kyle’s neck after his girlfriend Aimee started to give birth on the way to hospital.

The brave dad-of-three told how the dramatic events unfolded on Monday in a roadside scrapyard.

Gareth told the Irish Mirror: “I was getting diesel in my car and I got a phone call off Aimee’s sister to get back quick because she thinks the baby’s coming.

“So I got back there in five minutes. We were heading to the hospital at about 6.50am.

“About 15 minutes on the road, she was saying, ‘The baby’s coming, the baby’s coming - you are going to have to stop'.

“I was talking to the midwives on the phone at this stage and they were telling me to just keep going.

“She kept on shouting, so I had to pull in somewhere.

“The safest place to pull in was a scrapyard at the side of a road.

(Image: Irish Mirror)

“I turned around and I saw the baby’s head. I just jumped into the back and held the head.

“At the same time I pressed the loudspeaker on the phone I was talking to the midwives in Drogheda hospital - they were talking me through it."

It was at this point that Gareth noticed that the baby was at risk because its umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck.

He said: “Next thing, I realise the umbilical cord is wrapped around his neck.

“Once you see an umbilical cord wrapped around a baby’s neck, it's like life or death so you just get stuck in.

“I knew I had to do something. I grabbed the baby by the shoulders to help him out and with my fingers I was keeping the umbilical cord away from his neck.

“He’s very small and my hands were around his shoulders, underneath his armpits and with my thumb I was holding the umbilical cord.

“I eased it over his head as he was coming out at the same time.

“I eventually got him out and freed the umbilical cord over his head and put him into my arms.

“I grabbed a towel out a gym bag and I put it around him.

“I put the phone back up to my ear, talking to the midwives in the hospital.

“They were saying, ‘Grand, well done, just keep him warm’ and the midwives rang the ambulance.”

Gareth from Ratoath, Co Meath, Ireland, quipped: “I’m a delivery man - I deliver babies now as well.”

The quick-thinking hero said that he was in shock following the incident.

He told Today FM’s Ray D’Arcy show today: “It all happened so quick, from the time I stopped and I’d seen the baby’s head, the baby was born within a minute.

“It was another 15 minutes before the ambulance came I was just sitting there - I was frightened all right.

“I think I got out of the car one stage and was just walking up and down in shock.

“She’s screaming her head off, the cars still running, I think the radio could have been on and the loudspeaker was on.

“I thought I was going to get a heart attack myself.”

Gareth has since taken little Kyle back to the scrapyard, in Duleek, with his brother Nathan, 10, and sister Amy, 4, to pose for a photograph for posterity.

Kyle was 7lbs and 3oz at birth and was doing well yesterday after his dramatic arrival into the world.

Gareth added: “We didn’t pick a name until about six hours later in the hospital - we called him Kyle.

“We had a name picked - Lee - but then we thought he didn’t look like a Lee.

The plucky dad also told how new mum Aimee is also doing well after the experience.

He said: “She’s grand now, she’s ready to come out of hospital.”

Aimee’s sister, Caroline, who texted into the Today FM show joked: “I think they’re going to call him Scrappy.”

She added: “On a serious note we are very proud of Aimee Mannering and extremely proud of Gareth Lynch because the cord was around the baby’s neck and he did everything he was told from the hospital.

“Mammy and baby are good thank God but Gareth has been treated for shock with a beer.”