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Lough Ree RNLI volunteer lifeboat crew was called to assist 23 people in six different incidents during the month of May.

Representatives from the City of Galway Shipping company visited Galway RNLI during their weekly training session, to present the charity with a donation of €5,000. The company, which has been in operation since 1947, is based a short distance from the Galway lifeboat station, at New Docks.

The volunteer lifeboat crew welcomed University of Galway’s Prof Dara Byrne, Philip Parakal Augusthinose and Mike Smith to the station on Thursday last to see at first hand how the RNLI station operates and how clinical simulation can enhance casualty care and first aid training.

The RNLI is looking for new fundraising volunteers to join its lifesaving crews in Galway City, Clifden/Connemara and Aran Islands.

The volunteer crew of Clifden RNLI joined Aran Islands RNLI and Shannon-based Rescue 115 helicopter to carry out a search of the waters around Bunowen Bay last weekend.

Usually, the lifesavers of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) answer mayday calls – it’s the most serious call for help. But this May, they need your help.

On Friday of last week, the volunteer crew at Lough Ree RNLI performed the historic inaugural launch of the charity’s lifeboat ‘Tara Scougall’ from it’s newly commissioned boathouse at Coosan Point, Athlone.

Following a series of familiarisation and training programmes over the last three weeks the volunteer crew at Lough Ree RNLI is in readiness for the move to its new state of the art boathouse in Coosan later this month.

The volunteer crew of Clifden RNLI were requested on Tuesday to conduct a search operation in response to an EPIRB signal eight miles west of Clifden.

Achill Island RNLI is delighted to welcome Ciaran Needham, a native of Sáile, as the station’s new Lifeboat Operations Manager. Ciaran succeeds Tony McNamara, who recently retired from the role.