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A major rescue operation was conducted after lights were spotted on Errigal mountain late in the evening. Alamy Stock Photo

Mountain rescue team issue safety plea after late night Donegal climbers spark alarm

16 members of the Donegal Mountain Rescue Team and numerous garda stations conducted the rescue operation after lights were spotted on Errigal mountain.

A LEADING RESCUE service in Co Donegal has appealed to people to let local Gardaí know if they are climbing mountains in the current cold snap following an incident last night during which lights were spotted on Errigal Mountain.

The incident sparked a major rescue operation involving 16 members of the Donegal Mountain Rescue Team (DMRT) as well as numerous Garda stations.

The team swung into action after being put on standby after the lights were spotted at 11:05pm.

By 11:45pm, 16 DMRT members were on standby waiting to be told where to rendezvous, in the event of an extrication of a casualty off Errigal Mountain.

Letterkenny, Milford and Falcarragh Garda stations were also involved, some of whom were unable to even travel to the scene due to the hazardous road conditions.

It was revealed that a group of people had made the decision to climb Errigal late at night and neglected to tell anyone of their plan.

Once it was established that the group was safe, the team was stood down just after midnight last night.

A DMRT spokesperson said that thankfully none of their members had to battle the roads or brave the cold weather this time.

However, they pleaded with people to let Gardaí know if they are going outdoors to climb or walk.

The DMRT spokesperson warned that climbing conditions are currently “unusually dangerous”.

“We understand that our landscape, although beautiful all year round, can be particularly striking in the snow,” the spokesperson said.

“While we advise that you stay on lower ground and remain safe, if you do venture out, please contact your local Garda station to let them know where you are going, when you intend to leave and when you intend to return.

“This is essential to avoid an incident similar to last night, where the team are tasked very late for something that was so easily avoidable.”

The DMRT spokesperson said that the rescue team’s social media would be “closely monitored” for the next three days to check for messages from the public about potential excursions.

“Please note, however, that our Facebook page is NOT to be used in an emergency. If you need the services of DMRT, please call 999 or 112 and ask for mountain rescue,” the spokesperson added.

“Please stay safe as this cold snap continues. We wish for everyone to enjoy our hills at all times of the year, but please consider our emergency services and the volunteers involved and plan your excursion, should you wish to step out your door.”

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    Jun 10th 2024, 9:37 AM

    Siding with the government in calling concerned citizens racists and bigots when busloads of migrant men are being forced on communities all over Ireland certainly didn’t help their cause. They need to drop the woke nonsense and the Hamas cheerleading to gain some credibility back.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 9:56 AM

    @sean mcnamara: I’m no fan of SF, but they and the government are right to oppose what Israel is doing in Gaza. To call this ‘Hamas cheerleading’ is incorrect and dishonest.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:02 AM

    @Comments Section Closed: At least I have only one profile, unlike some people.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:16 AM

    @Comments Section Closed: Well, I’ve never seen your profile before, yet you’re obviously not new to the site.

    I understand that you probably have indigestion over the far right’s abysmal election showing. I sympathise insincerely.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:29 AM

    @Brendan O’Brien: There’s a big difference between opposing what Israel is doing in Gaza and the SF policy of cosying up to the terrorist Hamas organisation as well as their effective chants for the abolishment of Israel as seen at their and fheis.
    And there’s a big gap between their housing promises and their support for open borders and uncontrolled immigration.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:35 AM

    @Thomas Sheridan: support for open borders and uncontrolled migration? You do spout a load of nonsense

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:48 AM

    @sean: then how did the govt win while calling ‘concerned citizens’ racists? None of your anti immigrant parties won a seat. Wipeout.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:51 AM

    @Thomas Sheridan: doesn’t Simon Harris side with Palestine now lol? No one bought your open border uncontrolled immigration because your anti immigrant parties didn’t win one seat in the locals that has the most seats and easiest to win.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 11:33 AM

    Really hope mary looper stays on she is doing a fantastic job at destroying SF lol

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    Jun 10th 2024, 12:47 PM

    @9QRixo8H: Simon Harris doesn’t side with the Hamastinians or other associated terrorist thugs in the ME
    He has called for the implementation of a two state solution – something your Ham Ass friends have rejected.
    https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp

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    Jun 10th 2024, 1:14 PM

    @sean mcnamara: As soon as I see the word ‘woke’ I automatically stop reading.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 1:55 PM

    @Thesaltyurchin:
    Is this not a term that “woke” folk termed themselves ? As I soon as I see “woke” I just think gullible.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 9:27 AM

    Mary Lou took the party to WOKE if we want FF we can vote FF…..she has been a disaster

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    Jun 10th 2024, 9:58 AM

    @Renshai Renshai: You do know that SF presents itself as a left-wing party? Why would you expect right-wing policies from a left-wing party?

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:44 AM

    @Renshai Renshai: none of your anti-WOKE (bigoted) parties won a seat. Not one seat. The woke FFG won the election. Even with their failed referenda and apparently “open border” migration policies, they won.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 1:43 PM

    @9QRixo8H: your lovely new immigrant’s are mutilating women at record levels but your probably down with that send them all home, the right isn’t gone anywhere you know

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    Jun 10th 2024, 2:04 PM

    @Paul Hackett: You want to deport the women who are being mutilated?

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    Jun 10th 2024, 5:30 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: what age are you ,dope

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    Jun 10th 2024, 6:13 PM

    @Paul Hackett: it’s a pity you are still here

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:27 PM

    @Joe Kelly: I’d say there’s a lot of pity in your life

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:00 AM

    I assume that many commenters realise that the rise of a political group is a reaction to the attempt to control human behaviour too much, which can be construed as far-right.

    The Journal and RTE may take their cues from the academic community operating through social politics, but there is a limit to what people will accept as model behaviour, especially unreasonable hype from the modelling community and their dire predictions passed off as facts.

    I hope that politicians regain a sense that they represent the people rather than being driven by models and academic convictions that have no place in a productive and creative society.

    People may call me whatever they wish; however, I will call out dehumanisation reactions when I see it.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:08 AM

    @Gerald Kelleher: You are so obsessed with the academic community and ‘modelling’ that you apparently ignore the real world completely.

    Here, for instance, is what climate change is doing to wine production in Italy:

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/08/from-parched-earth-to-landslides-crisis-in-the-prosecco-hills-of-italy

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:10 AM

    @Bren:

    Prejudice has never been rejected, soundly or otherwise, in Irish society, for although the academic community is unable to hide Victorian natural selection behind eugenics or social darwinism any longer, there is no organisation or group of people willing or able to see terms like racism, racial, biracial, racist as invalid biological language.

    Natural selection is about human breeding and not evolution, the concept that some people deserve to thrive at the expense of less favoured ‘races’.

    ‘On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life’ Darwin

    Irish people are behaving like Brexiteer politicians, especially the Victorian imitator. there is no left or right politics here, just sordid academic politics

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:26 AM

    @Brendan O’Brien: I remember in 1983 when climate change modelling started to appear and was eventually weaponised by computer modelling. At that time, some theorists were also seeing the rise of phenomena.

    “A Lagrangian [model] is not a physical thing; it is a mathematical thing – a kind of differential equation, to be exact. But physics and maths are so closely connected these days that it is hard to separate the numbers from the things they describe. Nobel Prize winner Burton Richter of Stanford said: ” Mathematics is a language that is used to describe nature” he said “But the theorists are beginning to think it is nature. To them, the Lagrangians/models are the reality ” Discover Magazine,1983

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:26 AM

    @Brendan O’Brien: the Guardian has become biased. I gave up a subscription to them after nearly 5 years. Every article is doom and gloom and only from one side of the argument. Gerald is correct about the influence of academia on social issues. Not every one ascribes to the far left view of the various NGOs and academics which have too much policy influence. It’s a bit like the Government leaving all policy and governance to Doctors and Modelers during COVID. No political risk in absolving all responsibility to a third party even when the dogs in the street realised it was not the black death after year one . Look how the Greens hobbled nuclear power back in the day causing the Carbon Crisis today .

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:29 AM

    @Comments Section Closed:

    Your dehumanisation comment to O’Brien marks you as compliant in the same way as the SS once were.

    It doesn’t offend me as there are many commenters like you out there, to crude to know what cruelty looks like.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:40 AM

    @gregory pym: ‘The Guardian has become biased’ is a case of shooting the messenger. Are you going to tell Paola Ferrari that she’s not really losing her grape crop?

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:43 AM

    @gregory pym:

    The direction of travel with COVID-19 is that the experimental community were attempting to make a virus more infectious, so whether it escaped from the lab or not, it was a disaster even before it can be considered an accident where millions died and lives were disrupted.

    This is the second serious misadventure with biology, with Victorian natural selection being the first. It was swept under the carpet after WWII as social darwinism despite the original invasion and extermination imperatives.

    It is a juncture in European and world history where politicians are asked to represent society rather than being shills for the indulgences of mathematical modellers.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 11:03 AM

    @Comments Section Closed:

    Buy yourself an English keyboard.

    My voice is cultural, the ability to see where experimental theorists have taken society by using social politics as a conduit. What is seen as far-right is a reaction to this societal imbalance where people wake up every day to hear that by controlling human behaviour, they can control the weather/temperatures from media outlets acting on behalf of academic and social politicians.

    Too crude to know what cruelty is, I leave you to your own devices.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 11:40 AM

    @Brendan O’Brien:

    You may not see it, but I am certain more considerate commenters will.

    “Climate models are systems of differential equations based on the basic laws of physics, fluid motion, and chemistry.” Climate models

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_model

    I cannot offer to demonstrate what went wrong with any specific group, as I have no financial or reputational gain other than it is highly dangerous for a productive society. It would be helpful to have people involved but academic politics has made certain that it protects itself beginning with its hapless supporters and their noise.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:13 AM

    Mary Loo is Fianna Fail lite and does not represent the change she keeps banging on about

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:42 AM

    It’s a great result for the media.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:43 AM

    @087 bed: You poor thing. Thoughts and prayers.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:48 AM

    @087 bed: It’s a great result for democracy.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 11:35 AM

    @087 bed: The media report and also comment. The comment part will have plenty to say about mistakes and failures.
    Ti them it does not matter whose, except whose will get the most eyeballs on it

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:44 AM

    The right wing have made gains all over Europe including Ireland and FG and FF are part of that cohort. They have let immigration and refugees be an issue to gain populist support. Its the same all over Europe.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:55 AM

    Anti-immigrant bigoted parties didn’t win one seat across the nation. There is zero anti-immigrant momentum.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 11:36 AM

    @9QRixo8H: There is and they won a few seats on councils, mainly Dublin

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    Jun 10th 2024, 1:19 PM

    @Gary Kearney: Dzopers think the ‘hard-right’ is going to stop immigrants taking the jobs they don’t want to do. Beautifully played by the rich, effortlessly chumming poor waters.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:07 AM

    There is no comparison between local and general elections which was shown 5 years ago.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:47 AM

    @hans vos: You can cling to that if you wish, but SF didn’t run enough candidates in the GE, now their attempt to rectify that has spectacularly blown up in their faces.

    SF didn’t do the grunt work on the hustings, and their core support is really between 17 and 20% , the media campaign for this election was amateur and they won’t form or be part of any government.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 11:42 AM

    @Paul O’Mahoney: Not with this result but they still have time to rectify their mistakes before the next GE. So just don’t cling on to your hopes yet.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 1:50 PM

    @hans vos: My hopes? , I don’t have any when it comes to politics I simply don’t care.
    Nothing will change and democracy, the style we have, is not designed to help anyone except political parties and the members.

    And expecting elections to help those who truly need it by voting is laughable.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 1:27 PM

    There is only one key takeaway and that is immigration. Irish people just want someone to say that We do not mind people coming here to work but we do mind people coming here to sponge off us . We have been taken for a ride regarding immigration . Australia have strict immigration policies but no one calls them far right or racists.

    If SF had have proclaimed they are on our side in this , they would have had a landslide . Alas , they did not listen and choose to ignore

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:11 AM

    Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, what a tumble from grace lol

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    Jun 10th 2024, 10:50 AM

    @Duffman: OHHHHHH yeah……

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    Jun 10th 2024, 12:39 PM

    To sum up the analysis – SF are going to check the weather vane to see which way the wind is blowing and produce a populist stance.
    Anyone notice that SF faired best in the border counties. Is that the result of the last batch of immigrants.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 11:43 AM

    Who was the director of Elections in SF, as that is the buck stops too as well as the General Council.
    They got destroyed at the last locals and struggled for candidates for the General election, which they did brilliantly in. This time they over estimated and put in too many candidates. We had four and they had a reasonable chance of two.
    Yet the sitting councillor who is a great councillor nothing to do with party support, barley scrapped in. That is bad planning!

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    Jun 10th 2024, 12:20 PM

    @Gary Kearney: Sinn Fein will have to put their thinking balaclavas on after this disaster.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 1:09 PM

    @honey badger: thinking balaclavas! Lol

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    Jun 10th 2024, 12:23 PM

    Singing ooh ahh probably doesn’t help.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 2:35 PM

    It’s all their game plan to win Gaza elections in 2025. They have been so focused on Palestine, it’s obvious. Smart move.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 2:13 PM

    A few points I took from the local count regarding SF were that the vote was more based on individuals rather than parties, the SF candidates were very poor in our area (young with no work done on the ground to build their profiles) and transfers went everywhere, some independents took a lot of the votes that would have went to SF in the past.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 2:50 PM

    @The next small thing: We live in Kildare and as of this morning SF had 1 elected to KCC, this is a county that could have returned 4 TDs in GE had they run 4 candidates.

    But it points to another flaw SF have and it’s experience in Government they are going to become under increased scrutiny in the run up to the GE. 300,000 house prices in Dublin type statements will be laughed at, but their economics will also come under the spotlight.

    Fine saying ” our budget is full costed” for a year, but governments last 4/5 years and things like wage inflation, national debt interest etc need costing and then any proposals added to see the true figures.

    They are Junior C hurlers try to play Senior

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    Jun 10th 2024, 3:17 PM

    @Paul O’Mahoney: They are hurlers on the ditch. The current SF has its roots in the sectarian divide in NI and has no place in Southern politics. What place has an abstentionism MLA to represent the Southern people in the European Parliament. SF has one objective and that’s Irish unity. It doesn’t matter what price we pay for it.

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    Jun 10th 2024, 12:33 PM

    In need of a Reshuffle

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