Irish on ski trip feared dying in snow storm

FORTY-FIVE Irish ski tourists feared they would freeze to death trapped on a bus in snow blizzards for more than 16 hours as temperatures dipped to -5 degrees centigrade.

The tourists, some of them children, spent the night without food, water or toilet facilities, marooned short of their destination in Andorra.

The tourists flew from Cork to Toulouse and then embarked on a four-hour coach journey at 6pm on Sunday to the ski resort, Pas de la Casa.