Family of four safe and well after 9-hour ordeal on Galtee mountains

A FAMILY of four were found safe and well late on Sunday night after becoming lost while hiking on the Galtee mountains in Tipperary.

The four — a man from the Munster region and his three children aged from 10 to 14 — were on their way down to their car on the south side of Galtymore when they became disorientated in mist and fog and ended up descending the northern slopes.

They had earlier climbed Galtymore from the public car park at the top of the Black Road near Skeheenarinky.