Body found in mountains
Search and rescue teams recovered the body after the 74-year-old man failed to return from a walk along the Wicklow Way on Saturday evening.
It is understood that the missing man, who was married and from Dublin, was an experienced walker.
It is also believed he had been suitably dressed for hillwalking, but temperatures fell below freezing in the area on Saturday night.
The alarm was raised around midnight and search operations began almost immediately, with further numbers lending a hand at first light yesterday morning.
The body was found at around 3pm, about a mile from the Wicklow Way in the Aughavannagh area. Soldiers from the Glen of Imaal training camp helped with the recovery of the body, which was brought to Loughlinstown Hospital.
The dead man was expected to be identified last night but gardaí will not release his name until this morning. More than 200 people were involved in the search. The tragedy follows the tragic deaths of three people in two climbing accidents in the last year.
The incidents happened in the MacGillicuddy’s Reeks range in Co Kerry within 10 days of each other.
The first accident on St Stephen’s Day claimed the life of an experienced 23-year-old Cork climber, who fell from a cliff path on Carrauntuohill.
In January, a man in his 50s and a woman in her 30s, both experienced climbers, fell to their deaths in a gully in the Black Valley. Meanwhile, a man was killed and six others were seriously injured in three weekend fires in Dublin. James Savage, 51, died after a fire broke out in the bedroom of his house in Drumcondra shortly after midday on Saturday.
Five people were recovering in hospital last night following a blaze at a house on the North Circular Road.
Following another fire around the same time, the occupant of an apartment at Smithfield Village in the city was in a stable condition at the Mater Hospital.
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