Name: Grainne Ryan

Lives: Tipperary. Proud to be from the Peoples Republic of Cork .

Occupation: IT Dept for a General Hospital in Kilkenny

Interests: Mountain Rescue, outdoor pursuits(mountains, climbing, running, ballooning etc...) reading, first aid, guiding, anything involving snow, helicopters. Overall having FUN in the great outdoors!! Partaking in exciting challenges to fundraise for charities close to my heart. Astronomy.

In the team since: Feb 2008

Current position in the team: Team Secretary & Full Team Member

Lowlights: Seeing my first mountain fatality on the scottish mountains during winter training.

Highlights: When the pager goes off, team friendships, the Lug callout last year, completing my Wilderness-EMT, seeing the gratitude in the faces of the people we rescue, being a small part of the BIG picture that is Mountain Rescue Ireland, learning loads of new skills/talents from extraordinary Mountain Rescue & other Emergency Services personnel. Seeing 100's of shooting stars in the Knockmealdowns on a night exercise.

At around 3pm on Saturday, March 27th, 2010, SEMRA was called out to deal with another incident on the Comeragh Mountains in Co Waterford. A member of a walking group had fallen and sustained a lower leg injury. The Mountain Rescue team issued a full team call out to all its members and within twenty minutes had a 4x4 vehicle and six members in the Nire Valley. The team also called the Marine Rescue Coordinating Centre in Dublin and requested the assistance of the Coast Guard helicopter from Waterford. The helicopter was tasked to go to the area known as the "Knockanaffrin Ridge" where it located the injured walker. After her injury was treated the casualty was winched aboard and flown to Waterford Regional Hospital. Mountain Rescue members accompanied the remainder of the walking group safely off the mountains.
This is the second incident in the Comeragh Mountains in the last three days and the fourth that Mountain Rescue and the Coast Guard have dealt with in the South East in the last ten days. Team Leader, Michael Power, said "for a voluntary organisation, the last few days have been very busy, but all the training we do with the crews of the Coast Guard S61 in Waterford means we can respond quickly and make the best use of all our combined resources available for the benefit of the people that were injured and lost".

SEMRA would like to thank every one for their help today, the Crew of the helicopter, the walking group, its own members, and especially all at Hanora's Cottage in the Nire valley for allowing the team access to phones, as mobile phone reception was very bad in the area.

Six people were rescued on the mountains of the South East of Ireland today, March 26th, 2010. The first incident took place at around 2.30pm on the Comeragh Mountains in County Waterford, where four people were air-lifted by the Sikorsky S61 Coast Guard helicopter based in Waterford. The four had been out walking when one of the group fell and injured his leg. The helicopter was tasked to evacuate the injured walker, and the mountain rescue team was asked to go to the area and assist if needed. The injured walker was transferred to hospital in Waterford.

Just as Mountain Rescue members were returning home, Gardai in Tipperary town alerted the team to yet another incident, this time on the Galty Mountains in Tipperary. Two walkers had become lost in thick fog and mist in the area around Galtybeg and could not find their way down. The Mountain Rescue team responded with a full team call-out, and set up an incident base at the top of the Black Road on the southern side of the mountains. The team sent rapid response search teams into the area and one of those teams found the walkers in the valley above Glengarra wood at around 18.30. The two walkers were very wet and cold but in otherwise good condition. They were given extra clothing and assisted off the mountains to a team landrover which transported them back to their car.

SEMRA would like to thank all the agencies involved today, SARDA "Search and Rescue Dog Association", Gardai, Coast Guard and its own members. SEMRA is a 999/112 mountain search and rescue team that covers all the mountains of the South East of Ireland.


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A hill walker was rescued on the Galty mountains on St Patrick's Day having fallen and sustained a leg injury. At around 2.30pm, Gardai in Cahir, Co. Tipperary, received a 999/112 call from a group out walking on the mountains, saying one of their group was injured and they requested Mountain Rescue assistance. The Mountain Rescue team (who were in Clonmel preparing to take part in the St Patricks day parade) went on full team call out and sent three vehicles and seventeen team members to the area, known as "Pigeon Rock Glen", where the accident had happened. SEMRA also requested the assistance of the Coast Guard S61 helicopter from Waterford and it was tasked by the Marine Rescue Coordinating Centre in Dublin to go to the area immediately. As Mountain Rescue team members arrived at the accident site, the helicopter also arrived and in deteriorating weather conditions, the man was winched aboard and flown direct to Cork Airport where an ambulance was waiting and took him to Cork University Hospital with a suspected broken leg. The remaining 10 members of the walking group were accompanied off the mountains by SEMRA members.


SEMRA would like to thank the Gardai, MRCC Dublin, the walking group, and the crew of the IRCG S61 for their help today and we wish the injured man a speedy recovery.


 

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