Public praised after spotting teens cut off by tide on Hare Island

The public's being praised for raising the alert after a number of youths got cut off by the tide on Friday evening, while walking on Galway's Hare Island.

The public has been praised for raising the alert after a number of youths got cut off by the tide on Friday evening while walking on Galway's Hare Island.

The young men in their late teens were picked up by an RNLI lifeboat after a number of people spotted they were in difficulty and contacted the lifeboat station at Galway Docks.