Search & Rescue County Clare - Ireland

RNLI assists two people on motorboat adrift with engine failure

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RNLI assists two people on motorboat adrift with engine failure - The Clare Herald Lough Derg RNLI volunteers have assisted two people after their 15th motorboat suffered engine failure leaving it adrift. Watch officers at the Irish Coast Guard’s marine rescue coordination centre on Valentia Island in Kerry alerted the Dromineer-based lifeboat crew shortly before 2.30pm. Soon af...

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Recently during some well deserved time off with her family. Our flight operations admin & roster co-ordinator for the 4 SAR bases 115/116/117 & 118 was interrupted by our duty crew. Catherine Maher has been the back bone of our operation for ten years. Rostering our crews to do what we do.

Pictured with her husband Tom and daughters Sophie & Lucy, and our duty winchman Brian.

Thanks for everything you do for us Catherine.

Tune in this Wednesday morning to hear Jim’s chat with Alan.

Coming Up On Tomorrow's Morning Focus...

This week’s guest for In Profile is Jim O’Neill.

Jim is a Shannon-based Irish Coast Guard helicopter winchman/paramedic.

RNLI Lough Derg assists 3 people after vessel runs aground in Scarriff Bay

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RNLI assists 3 people after vessel runs aground in Scarriff Bay - The Clare Herald The Lough Derg RNLI lifeboat has taken three people to safety after their 33ft cruiser that ran aground in Scarriff Bay near Mountshannon Harbour. The volunteer crew was paged and tasked shortly after 3.30pm by watch officers at the Irish Coast Guard’s marine rescue coordination centre on Valentia...

Rescue 115 crew completes medical evacuation from trawler

Rescue 115 crew completes medical evacuation from trawler - The Clare Herald The Shannon-based Irish Coast Guard search and rescue helicopter has completed a long-range medical evacuation (Medevac) from a vessel off the west coast this evening. Rescue 115 was tasked shortly before 6.00pm and requested to proceed to meet a vessel 125 nautical miles (231 kilometres) west of Lo...

Blue Light Award for Jim O’Neill and Rescue 115 colleagues

Killaloe Coast Guard Unit RNLI Lough Derg

Blue Light Award for Jim O'Neill and Rescue 115 colleagues - The Clare Herald Shannon-based search and rescue helicopter winchman/paramedic Jim O’Neill has been honoured for a second time in just a few weeks when he and his Rescue 115 colleagues received a Blue Light Award at the weekend. The inaugural Blue Light Awards celebrated the vital contribution of frontline emergen...

Another award for Jim O'Neill and his Rescue 115 colleagues.

Congratulations to Shannon based Winchman-paramedic Jim O'Neill and the crew of Rescue 115, who won the "Bravery and Courage Award" at the inaugural Ireland Blue Light Awards. The story behind the rescue of the 14 fishermen from the French-registered vessel Fastnet, which ran aground on the rocks at Bínn Bán near Di**le in December 2025 will be discussed tomorrow (Monday 17th) on the Oliver Callan Radio Show on RTE Radio 1

Lough Derg RNLI assists rower suffering from fatigue

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Lough Derg RNLI assists rower suffering from fatigue - The Clare Herald The Lough Derg RNLI Lifeboat was tasked this afternoon to assist a rower reporting to be struggling with fatigue. At 1:55pm, the Dromineer-based Lough Derg RNLI Lifeboat crew launched to a location Parkers Point. The wind was southeasterly, Force 4 while visibility was reported to be good but decrea...