Former Soldier Helps Gardai Find Teenagers Lost In Midlands Forest
The Big Story
Monday, 23 March 2026 - 16 minutes
A search party was organised to help locate four teenagers lost in a dense midlands woodland last Saturday.
Former soldier Robert Wallace was called to assist Athlone Gardai, as he runs Westshore Survival and has helped in previous searches in Monkslands Forest.
The four youngsters had been in the forest for five hours and were very cold.
He has been speaking with Will Faulkner on Midlands Toady and says temperatures were dropping and darkness was setting in when he found the teenagers:
