AN IRISH SEVEN-YEAR-OLD is fighting for for her life in hospital after being rescued from a near-drowning in her Majorcan hotel pool.

The young girl was rushed to an intensive care unit “in a critical condition” with police clearing a path for her ambulance so she could get there as quickly as possible.

This morning, sources at Son Espases Hospital in the Majorcan capital Palma confirmed she remained “critical” in its paediatric intensive care unit.

A spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs said the department “is aware of the case and providing all possible consular assistance”.

“As with all consular cases, the Department does not comment on the details of any specific case,” they said.

The hotel has been named as the HYB Eurocalas Hotel in the east coast resort of Calas de Mallorca.

The alarm was raised yesterday afternoon.

A spokeswoman for a regional government-run emergency coordination centre said: “We took a call around 3.40pm yesterday to say lifeguards had spotted a young girl lying motionless on the bottom of the pool and dived in to rescue her.”

“They performed CPR on her after pulling her out of the water because she had gone into cardiac arrest,” the spokeswoman said.

“Paramedics continued to try to revive her after reaching the scene and got her breathing again in the back of the ambulance. She was taken to Son Espases Hospital.”

No-one from the HYB Eurocalas Hotel was available for comment this morning.