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Galway Mountain Rescue Team (GMRT) will be on the streets of Galway City this coming Saturday, November 6, for its annual fundraising bucket collection. Team members will be stationed on Shop Street and at the Briar Hill Shopping Centre throughout the day.

A search and rescue mission initiated to search for a man who went missing from the Letterfrack area in Renvyle was called off yesterday after contact was made.

Three men were rescued from a sinking yacht off Spiddal Pier on Sunday morning.

Galway RNLI Lifeboat rescued a family whose small boat broke down on Galway Bay earlier this week.

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.

Galway RNLI Lifeboat was called to the aid of a man who became trapped by rising tide on a headland between Blackrock and Silver Strand on Sunday.

A search and rescue operation was launched in the early hours of yesterday following reports that a body had been spotted in the river near Wolfe Tone Bridge. However an extensive search of the area revealed nothing, and the incident is now believed to have been a false alarm.

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.