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Aran Islands RNLI responded to a Mayday in the early hours of Sunday morning to rescue the crew of a fishing vessel that had run aground. It was the second call out in two days for the station’s volunteers.

Lough Ree RNLI is one the newest stations the charity has on the island of Ireland and crew members proudly marked two centuries of lifesaving at special events in Dublin and London on Monday of this week.

James Corballis and Aaron O’Reilly, two trainee crew with the Galway Lifeboat Station, have this week completed their training programme and passed their final assessments which means that they can progress to fully-fledged crew.

In recognition of their dedication and commitment of time, energy and skills, seven members of the Galway RNLI crew were presented with long service awards for achieving 50, 100, 150 and 200 services.

Introduced in 1963, the inshore lifeboat continues to be an invaluable asset in the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s (RNLI) fleet as new figures show the charity’s Inshore lifeboats have saved 30,778 lives across 60 years.

Excellence in volunteering awards were recently presented to three volunteers at Lough Ree RNLI, Damien Delaney, Tony McCarth and Bernard Larkin BEING recognised for their generous and significant contributions to the community and the charity.

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.

Just like the charity’s lifeboats, the RNLI’s fundraising team need a dedicated volunteer crew, volunteers being at the heart of the RNLI and comprising 95% of its people.