VIDEO: Family flown from Norway to Cork after finding balloon on a high

Having arrived to a large reception, West Cork’s newest high-profile visitors have been sampling the best the region has to offer after their unlikely prize win.

The Taule-Leikanger family from Norway found a balloon while hiking last month, not realising that it had been released by the Dunmanway Chamber of Commerce, before Christmas.

Attached was a list of prizes put forward by local businesses who assumed that the balloon might make it as far as a neighbouring county but few expected it would land over 2,500km away.