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Mayor of the City of Galway, Cllr Mike Cubbard, welcomed representatives from Galway Lifeboat to City Hall on Friday for a Mayoral Reception celebrating 30 years of Galway Lifeboat.

If Storm Éowyn had hit Galway at high tide last January, lives would have been lost. This is the brutal conclusion of a new report from the government’s National Directorate of Fire and Emergency Management (NDFEM), quietly published last week.

Galway RNLI’s volunteer crew were requested to launch by the Irish Coast Guard on the afternoon of Sunday, August 17, to assist five people on board a 7-metre rigid inflatable boat (RIB) which had broken down off the North Clare coast.

Two volunteer crew based at the Galway RNLI Lifeboat Station have recently taken up new roles as Launch Authority and Station Mechanic.

by J.M. Synge

Galway RNLI’s volunteer crew were requested to launch by the Irish Coast Guard on Saturday afternoon to rescue two walkers on Hare Island who had been cut off from the shore by the incoming tide.

The Aran Islands RNLI volunteer crew were requested to launch Friday evening at 8.59pm by the Irish Coast Guard following reports of an overdue kayaker.

The Aran Islands RNLI were tasked on Sunday to assist four people on board an 18-foot speedboat that had suffered engine trouble and was drifting off the Clare coast.

The Health Service Executive has selected the temporary helipad in Shantalla Park as its preferred location for permanent aeromedical infrastructure, and local residents are not impressed.

Ahead of this week's Christmas swims taking place across the city and county, the Irish Coast Guard, Water Safety Ireland and the RNLI have urged the public to remain cautious while in or near water during the festive season.