A man has been airlifted to hospital after he was injured while hiking in the Burren in North Clare this morning.
The alarm was raised at around 10.30am when emergency services received a report of a hill walker in difficulty while climbing Slieve Carran on the Clare/Galway border.
The Shannon-based Irish Coast Guard helicopter, Rescue 115, which had been on a training mission near Quilty at the time, was able to reach the scene in about 10 minutes.
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The injured man, understood to have sustained an ankle injury, was airlifted to Galway University Hospital for treatment.
