A man who had been refusing to leave a Stone Age fort on the Aran Islands has been escorted from the cliff top scene by gardaí and has been taken to the mainland.
The man spent five hours on the ramparts of a pre-historic fort and at one point began throwing stones from the fort at anybody approaching him.
A standoff began shortly after 3pm and ended just before 9pm.
Gardaí say the man was not arrested but was taken to Galway for medical treatment.
