Update: Teen escapes serious injury after fall into cave off Cork island

A teenager has been airlifted in serious condition to hospital in Cork after falling into a cave on an island off Cork.
Update: Teen escapes serious injury after fall into cave off Cork island
Picture: RNLI / Sean McCarthy.
Thu, 09 Jul, 2020 - 20:50
Eoin English

A teenager escaped serious injury after falling 30ft into a cave on an island off Cork yesterday.

The girl in her mid-teens fell into the cave on East Skeam, a small island just north of Hehir Island in Roaringwater Bay, the area of water between Schull and Baltimore in West Cork.

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