{"id":30728,"date":"2025-06-10T11:26:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/four-men-rescued-from-benbulben-mountain\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T11:26:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:26:35","slug":"four-men-rescued-from-benbulben-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/four-men-rescued-from-benbulben-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Four men rescued from Benbulben mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"


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SLMRT responders watch the Irish Coast Guard helicopter depart<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Four men have been rescued after getting into difficulties on a popular Irish mountain.<\/p>\n

The group became disorientated during bad weather on Benbulben in County Sligo on Monday.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed (Irish police) were alerted as local weather conditions deteriorated with heavy rain and gusting winds.<\/p>\n

The Sligo\/Leitrim Mountain Rescue Team (SLMRT) and a coastguard rescue helicopter were deployed to the mountainside shortly before 15:00 local time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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However, the helicopter was unable to reach the group because of low cloud cover and poor visibility.<\/p>\n

A SLMRT spokesperson said that amid “concern for the casualties” the helicopter transported a number of responders from the roadside to a location on the mountain close to the stranded group.<\/p>\n

They eventually reached the group “not far from the summit of the mountain while the helicopter remained on scene just below the cloud base”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The response vehicle and helicopter near the base of the mountain<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

How were they brought off Benbulben?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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The four men, who had travelled to Sligo from another part of the country, were assessed at the scene and “deemed to be onset hypothermic”.<\/p>\n

Responders set up an emergency shelter to help them to get warm enough to walk off the mountain.<\/p>\n

“The team responders then escorted the casualties down the hill and handed them over to the waiting coastguard crew for further assessment and treatment,” the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n

The rescue team has wished the men “a speedy recovery”.<\/p>\n

They have also reminded hikers to check the weather forecast before setting out as “conditions can deteriorate much faster and to a worse degree than in lowland areas”.<\/p>\n

At 526m tall, Benbulben is known as Ireland’s table-top mountain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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