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The RNLI is to trial an inshore lifeboat on one of the biggest loughs on the River Shannon. At a recent meeting of the RNLI Board of Trustees the decision was taken to place an inshore lifeboat on Lough Ree for at least 12 months to assess whether a permanent lifeboat station should be established.

A fancy dress hippy night will take place on Sunday October 30 in Leonardo's, Ballina.

Evergreen Healthfoods are next week hosting a unique cookery demonstration event in Moycullen in aid of the RNLI Galway Lifeboats. The event, entitled ‘Health from the Sea – a seaweed cookery demonstration by Dr Prannie Rhatigan’, takes place upstairs at The Forge Bar, Moycullen on Tuesday October 25 at 7:30pm.

A fundraising event in aid of the Achill Lifeboats RNLI will take place at The Valley House, Achill Island from noon to 5pm on Saturday July 16.

A large-scale search operation, which had gone into its fourth day, ended yesterday morning following the grim discovery of the missing man’s body at the Claddagh Basin.

The RNLI lifeboats in Mayo rescued 22 people off the coast of the county last year. The lifeboats, which are based in stations in Achill and Ballyglass, were called into action on 18 different occasions in 2010. The Ballyglass lifeboat was by far the busier of the two, with 12 launches of the boat. Ten of the launches were of the all-weather lifeboat, while the inshore lifeboat had to be launched twice. The Ballyglass station rescued 21 people over the 12 months.

As part of the RNLI's SOS campaign, Keith Brennan of Brennan's Lane in Ballina is going to take a bath in a wheelie bin filled with cold water and ice cubes.

Experience the excitement of the RNLI Achill Lifeboat Swim on New Year’s Day. This unique event takes place at Dugort Strand at 1pm sharp.

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.