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As it celebrates its 10th anniversary, volunteers at Lough Ree RNLI will host a dual celebration at Coosan Point at 2pm on Saturday, June 11, when the charity’s new state-of-the-art lifeboat station will be officially opened.

Lough Ree RNLI is urging people using the River Shannon and Lough Ree to be safety conscious as they make the seasonal return to the waterway this weekend.

Volunteer lifeboat crew at Lough Ree RNLI responded to two callouts on Saturday afternoon ensuring the safety of seven water users on grounded cruisers.

A new Atlantic 85 class lifeboat, Tara Scougall, has gone on service at Lough Ree RNLI. The lifeboat which arrived at the Coosan Point lifeboat station on Tuesday of this week replaces The Eric Rowse which has been used for rescues and to save lives on Lough Ree since August 2014.

Lough Ree RNLI is asking the public to support ‘Mayday’, the charity’s annual fundraising campaign. The appeal comes as the RNLI announced their rescue figures for 2018, which noted that the lifeboat crew on Lough Ree in Dromineer launched 72 times and assisted 188 people on the lough, making it one of the busiest stations in Ireland.

The services of Lough Ree RNLI lifeboat crew were called upon on a number of occasions during the recent bank holiday weekend.

Lough Ree RNLI lifeboat crew were alerted by the Coast Guard to two separate incidents on Saturday, May 27.

The volunteer lifeboat crew from Lough Ree RNLI was called to assist eight people last Wednesday afternoon, May 25, after their motor cruiser ran aground on a shoal north of Inch Turk on Lough Ree.

The crews of Lough Ree RNLI lifeboat and Irish Coast Guard helicopter participated in a joint training exercise on Lough Ree on April 10.

Volunteer lifeboat crews with Lough Ree RNLI were called out twice on consecutive days to assist grounded vessels in the Wood Shoal area.