Storm Frank: Rescuers urge everyone to stay off the mountains

The Kerry Mountain rescue Team is urging hill-walkers to heed weather warnings and not to venture out at this time.

Storm Frank: Rescuers urge everyone  to stay off the mountains

The appeal comes after some 20 members of the voluntary rescue service were called out to rescue an injured climber from Carrauntoohil, at the height of Storm Frank in extremely hazardous conditions on Tuesday.

Kerry county councillor John Joe Culloty, a keen hill- walker, said he was astonished anyone thought of hill- walking during this spell of bad weather.

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