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Mountain Rescue is a 24 hour 999/112 emergency service provided by unpaid volunteers. We are a registered charity (CHY10412).
News & Info
Mountain Rescue Ireland Endorses Satmap Active 10
Award winning GPS unit and Ordnance Survery mapping is now available across Ireland
Surrey, U.K. - 15 June 2010...Satmap Systems Ltd. has announced Mountain Rescue Ireland has endorsed the Active 10 for use by its members. The organisation has been rigorously testing the Active 10 and chose it over other GPS because of its rugged specification, reliability, and ease-of-use.
Busy week for Mayo MRT
At 2.15 pm, on Sunday, 05-JUN-10, the Mayo team received a call from the Gardai concerning a 15 year old girl who was reported injured on the south side of the cone of Croagh Patrick. The team was assembled and sent up first responders. The first responders reported that the girl had a badly broken bone in her lower leg. The casualty was stretchered off the mountain to the base and taken by ambulance to Castlebar General Hospital. The girl was a member of a party of 42 climbers and was from Celbridge, Co. Kildare.
Hill Runner stretchered from summit of Scarr Mountain
North West Mountain Rescue Team Locate Missing Person - Antrim
The North West Mountain Rescue Team (NWMRT) were tasked by the PSNI to search for a missing vulnerable person in the Antrim area at 0330 on Thursday 27 May. Volunteers from the NWMRT searched for and later located the missing person at 0430, safe and well.
Spokesman for the NWMRT, Joe Dowdall, said "The North West Mountain Rescue Team are pleased that we were able to locate the missing person so swiftly during a night time search."