No you weren’t seeing things if you think you saw some Howth CG members on the Shannon last weekend. Paul and Declan, two members of the unit were down on the Shannon last weekend along with ‘Grainne‘ our boat. They were assisting the soon to be Killaloe/Ballina Coast Guard unit with Lifejacket Compliance Monitoring. The members were passing on their experience of monitoring in the Dublin area. On Saturday the two boats ‘Grainne’ and ‘Cuchulainn’ and their crews proceeded from Killaloe to Portumna and concentrated on the North end of Lough Derg. On Sunday the South end of the lake was covered along with the river south of Killaloe. The crews found that while compliance was good they did have to inform many people of the present law in relation to the wearing of PFDs and to the speed limits on inland waterways.
The exercise was considered to be a great success and more visits are expected in the future.
