A cliff walker who got into difficulty on a cliff
above Mahon Falls was winched to safety this afternoon in an operation
involving the Coast Guards Rescue 115 Helicopter from Shannon and the South
East Mountain Rescue Association the Gardai and the MRCC .
Gardaí alerted the South Eastern Mountain Rescue
Association and the Irish Cast Guard to assist the walker who became crag fast.
The Coast Guard’s R115 was guided to the location by
the SEMRA and began to winch the person from the cliff to lower ground where
he was attended to by South Eastern Mountain Rescue. He was uninjured in the
incident.
Conditions
at the time were very mixed with sunshine, showers of hail and thunder in the
distance.
At the time of the rescue the Coast Guards Rescue 117
Helicopter at Waterford Airport was out of commission due to a service on the
craft.
