Search for couple who kept UCC students from Thailand jail

A group of students from UCC have launched an online appeal to find the kind Irish strangers who helped them avoid being arrested in Thailand.

Sorcha Cotter, Maeve Nevin Maguire and Nicole Yap were travelling from Surat Thani airport in Thailand to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia but found they had overstayed their visas.

When attempting to leave the country, authorities fined them 10,500 baht, the equivalent of €300, and said if they could not pay they would be brought to a police station and prosecuted.