Department of Agriculture announces orange fire warning until Friday

It followed a surge in call-outs to wildfires across Cork over the weekend and a massive blaze in Killarney National Park on Sunday night.

A firefighter tackling a gorse fire in Cork. Picture: Cork County Fire Service.

The Department of Agriculture has announced an orange fire warning, in place until Friday.

The warning was announced yesterday and “is deemed to exist in all areas where hazardous fuels such as dead grasses and shrub fuels such as heather and gorse exist”.