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From Good Friday until the weekend just passed the volunteer crew at Lough Ree RNLI came to the assistance of 17 people who encountered difficulties on and around the lake.

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.

The Mayo Mountain Rescue Team (MMRT) had a busy week with four different call-outs for their assistance since last Friday, March 18.

The first public holiday weekend of the year saw Lough Ree RNLI volunteer crew respond to two call-outs and come to the aid of four people stranded on the lake.

The volunteer crew of Clifden RNLI launched the Shannon class, all-weather lifeboat to assist three teenage kayakers who drifted from the shore in Ballinakill Bay, near Letterfrack on Saturday.

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.

DPD Ireland CEO, Des Travers, has lauded the prompt action of the emergency services following a suspected security incident at the company’s hub facility in Athlone this week.

Achill Island RNLI medically evacuated a man from Clare Island on Friday afternoon, January 28, in what was its first call-out of 2022.

RONAN FAGAN