Search on the Waterford/Tipperary border ends successfully at 4am.

A major search and rescue took place in the Knockmealdown Mountains along the Waterford and Tipperary County Boundary late on Saturday night and into the early hours of Sunday morning.

Five members of one family were rescued as a result of the agencies that worked together in the search.

Gardai called out the South Eastern Mountain Rescue Association on Saturday evening after getting reports of the family getting lost in the area. The family of two adults and three children all under the age of 12 were reported to be in an area known as The Vee and Bay Lough between Cappoquin and Clogheen.

Along with the South Eastern Mountain Rescue Association and Gardai, the Irish Coast Guard, Tramore Cliff and Mountain Rescue Team and the Waterford based rescue 117 Helicopter took part in the search.

The family were found at about 4am after a search of the area. All five were reported to be safe and well when found.

Last June another major search took place in the area when a couple in their 50’s had to be rescued after they became trapped in what was described as an “impenetrable jungle” of rhododendron plants.

That search took five hours to complete after the couple who were experienced hill walkers got into difficulty while descending a steep hillside that leads to a lake in the area.

The pair were quickly found but rescuers struggled to get through the last 400 metres of shrubs to assist the stranded pair.

Once reached the rescuers on that occasion decided to call in a rescue boat and bring them to the edge of the small lake and get them into the boat and across to safety rather than to bring the pair back up the hillside through the dense growth.