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Achill RNLI hosted a function in Johnny Pattens, Dereens, recently to honour four crew members who stepped down from lifeboat service – Paddy Kilbane, Cloughmore, Robert Gogan, Dereens, Patrick English, Cashel and Bernard Briody, Polranny. Lifeboat Operations Manager (LOM), Tom Honeyman, paid tribute to the four men for their commitment, selfless and generous sacrifice of their free time as RNLI volunteers. Each member received a commemorative plaque and certificate in recognition of services to Achill Island Lifeboat Station. The former LOM, Bob Kingston and the former DLA, Anthony Gielty, made the presentations.

Two men were rescued from their sinking boat in an incident in the bay last Thursday.

The RNLI is to trial an inshore lifeboat on one of the biggest loughs on the River Shannon. At a recent meeting of the RNLI Board of Trustees the decision was taken to place an inshore lifeboat on Lough Ree for at least 12 months to assess whether a permanent lifeboat station should be established.

Two fishermen from Mayo who spent 12 hours at sea off the north Mayo coast after their boat capsized were not assisted after they released flares; nor did the emergency position indicating radio beacon (EPIRB) assist them, a report by the Marine Casualty Investigation Board has found.

Dancers from Mayo helped to break a new Guinness World Record last weekend when the longest ever Riverdance line-up of 392 dancers performed together. The charity event raised £10,000 for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and will go towards training volunteer lifeboat crews in Ireland. The world record stood at 312 but 392 dancers lined the banks of the River Foyle in Derry to dance together for five minutes and smash the world record on Sunday last, it is now hoped the new record will be officially confirmed in the next few weeks.

St Patrick's Brass Band will perform this weekend in a fundraising concert for Galway RNLI Lifeboat.

A table quiz in aid of Galway RNLI Lifeboat will take place in the Salthill Hotel, Galway, on Monday next February 22, commencing 8pm.

A table quiz in aid of Galway RNLI Lifeboat will take place in the Salthill Hotel, Galway, on Monday next February 22, commencing 8pm.

Seven divers who were feared missing off the Connemara coast were found safe over the weekend.

The Galway Choral Association will hold a special summer celebration concert in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Friday June 26 at 8pm in aid of the Galway RNLI.