A Coast Guard unit in Co Clare has become the first in Ireland to launch a drone for an operational search, on the same day that three teams nationally were formally activated.
Five of the twenty-three Irish Coast Guard units who have been barred from launching their rescue boats in recent weeks could resume water-based operations as early as next weekend.
An RNLI lifeboat crew was called to assist an Irish Coast Guard unit at a water rescue incident in Co Clare overnight, because they can’t currently launch their own rescue boats.
The Irish Coast Guard has suspended all search and rescue boat operations with immediate effect because of concerns over the safety of volunteer’s lifejackets.
The Lough Derg RNLI was requested to go to the assistance of two people whose vessel had run aground near Pike Island, north of Kilgarvan Quay on the Tipperary shore yesterday.
