Woman in hospital after 10-hour island rescue

Rescue workers clawed their way up steep rocks in complete darkness early today to reach an injured woman on one of Ireland’s most remote islands.

Woman in hospital after 10-hour island rescue

Rescue workers clawed their way up steep rocks in complete darkness early today to reach an injured woman on one of Ireland’s most remote islands.

Sue Redican was returning from a friend’s house on the largely uninhabited Great Blasket Island, off the Co Kerry coast, in the early hours of this morning when she stumbled on treacherous terrain and broke her ankle.

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