by Cathal Cudden | Dec 6, 2016
At 13:45 Wednesday afternoon, Nov 30th, Kerry Mountain Rescue Team were called out to an incident on Corrán Tuathail. An English woman in her 40’s had slipped and fallen whilst descending Central Gully with her climbing partner. With the assistance of Rescue 115...
by Cathal Cudden | Oct 21, 2016
The Bro Aled Male Voice Choir will perform in the INEC Acoustic club on October 27th in aid of Kerry Mountain Rescue. From the shelter of the Denbigh Moors in North Wales, the Choir is celebrating it’s 40th anniversary with this special return trip to Killarney...
by Cathal Cudden | Oct 19, 2016
Kerry Mountain Rescue will celebrate its 50th Anniversary on Saturday, October 22 with an Open Day at the Rescue Station from 2pm to 4.30pm and celebrations that evening in Kate Kearney’s Cottage, Gap of Dunloe. Latest NewsCALLOUT – CarrauntoohilDecember...
by kmradmin | Sep 12, 2016
At 23.30 on 12th September, Kerry Mountain Rescue Team was called to assist the Coast Guard Unit from Castletownbere with the rescue of a tourist family from a crag on the south side of Hungry Hill on the Beara Peninsula.The family of 4 had become crag-fast on a small...
by kmradmin | Jul 30, 2016
Yesterday afternoon at around 3.00pm, 14 members of Kerry Mountain Rescue Team were called to the rescue of a walker at Torc Waterfall. The walker, an American lady slipped and fell 100 feet down a steep embankment, sustaining shoulder and other injuries. The incident...
by Cathal Cudden | Jul 19, 2016
Kerry Mountain Rescue Team were called to the rescue of a hillwalker on the upper northern slopes of Cnoc na Toinne, above the Hag’s Glen in the McGillycuddy’s Reeks on the morning of Sunday 10th July last. The walker, an Irishman in his mid-50’s, sustained serious...