Scouting Ireland probe after two scouts swept into sea in Wexford

Scouting Ireland is conducting a thorough review of protocols and procedures after two of its venture scouts were swept out to sea in Co Wexford on Sunday.

The pair, a boy and girl aged 15, remained in hospital yesterday with the girl described as being in a critical condition. They were among four children swept off rocks on which they had been walking at Hook Head.

While two boys managed to pull themselves ashore, the other two could not get out of the water in which there had been a powerful swell due to Storm Desmond.