Sunday Mirror (Northern Ireland)

INSPIRATIO­N of the week

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CYCLIST Adam Marr was hailed a hero after talking a depressed woman out of killing herself.

When Adam, 24, spotted the desperate woman lying in the path of oncoming traffic he spent 10 minutes persuading her to move to safety.

Then he

waited with her for 20 minutes until emergency services arrived.

His good deed in Manchester city centre was snapped by passerby Samantha Caine, who launched a social media appeal to find the Good Samaritan.

Adam was branded a hero as his photo went viral but he downplayed the incident, saying: “It was a natural reaction to stop and help. She was very

upset and confused.

“I was just trying to keep her calm.”

But Samantha, 24, insisted: “She was serious about trying to kill herself,

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