Injured hiker rescued in Wicklow over bank holiday weekend

At 8.14am the Dublin Wicklow Mountain Rescue team and the Glen of Imaal Red Cross Mountain Rescue team were tasked to come to the aid of the hiker who had suffered a suspected lower leg injury around the Derrybawn area.

Mountain rescue personnel drove to a high point on the track system above Glendalough and deployed member onto the hill.

Medics treated the patient, who was then carried in a stretcher to a mountain rescue 4x4 vehicle, which transported them back to base so they could be handed over to a waiting ambulance for onward care.