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New lifeboat berth for Aran completes major building project for RNLI

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Volunteer lifeboat crews with Aran Islands RNLI will now be able to launch their all weather Severn Class lifeboat faster following the installation of a 24 metre pontoon.

Local heroes launch lake rescue

A local Red Cross volunteer crew launched an emergency rescue on Lough Corrib early on Monday morning after a local couple were stranded on the lake overnight when their boat got into difficulty.

Clifden RNLI to name new inshore lifeboat ‘Joyce King’ in memory of a beloved wife

A new Atlantic 85 lifeboat for Clifden RNLI is to be officially named ‘Joyce King’ during a ceremony at the lifeboat station in the Connemara town at 2pm on Saturday November 9. The lifeboat, which went on service in June, was funded by a legacy from the late John Charles King in memory of his wife Joyce.

Woman seriously injured in Old Head cliff dive accident

A young woman was seriously injured after she struck rocks on Wednesday afternoon while cliff-diving at Maxwell’s Leap at Old Head, near Louisburgh. The Achill Island Lifeboat was dispatched to the scene at 4pm and used the ‘daughter boat’ from the rocks below the cliff to transfer the woman to the main lifeboat before she was airlifted to Mayo General hospital by the Coast Guard helicopter which was dispatched to the scene from Shannon.

Woman seriously injured in Old Head cliff dive accident

A young woman was seriously injured after she struck rocks on Wednesday afternoon while cliff-diving at Maxwell’s Leap at Old Head, near Louisburgh. The Achill Island Lifeboat was dispatched to the scene at 4pm and used the ‘daughter boat’ from the rocks below the cliff to transfer the woman to the main lifeboat before she was airlifted to Mayo General hospital by the Coast Guard helicopter which was dispatched to the scene from Shannon.

Emerging Kinvara painters

TEN ARTISTS, recent graduates or current students of the ACCS art and design degree in the GMIT, are exhibiting in Kinvara.

Six rescued as cruiser sinks within sight of Athlone

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Six men were rescued from the Shannon this week by the crew of the Lough Ree RNLI lifeboat after their fibreglass cruiser hit what is believed to be a submerged fence post.

Three rescued on Hare Island during high tide

Galway RNLI Lifeboat went to the rescue of three students who were stranded on Hare Island on Monday afternoon after getting caught in the tide off Ballyloughane Beach.

Mayo RNLI lifeboats launched seven times during the summer

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This summer the two RNLI lifeboat stations in Mayo launched their lifeboats seven times. Achill Island lifeboat crew launched their all weather lifeboat four times, while Ballyglass RNLI were called out three times.

Lough Ree RNLI lifeboat station goes live

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The RNLI’s 44th lifeboat station in Ireland has officially been put into service and become a declared search and rescue asset on Lough Ree. The new lifeboat station is based at Coosan Point in Athlone. The RNLI will operate a B class Atlantic 75 lifeboat from temporary station facilities with the cost of the set-up estimated to be around €150,000.

 

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