Al McQuillan a volunteer with the Howth Coast Guard Unit is travelling to South Africa in November with the Niall Mellon Township Trust. This will be the largest ever exodus of Irish people to a charity event overseas and will be the fifth Township Challenge the Niall Mellon Township Trust has organised. He will be [...]
Howth Coast Guard volunteers returning from a boat patrol today at 17.30 responded to a request for assistance and went to the aid of a collapsed man on the West pier outside the Scout den. CPR and first aid were given to the man until a requested ambulance arrived. He was then removed to Beaumont hospital.
Incident 42/07
Last night Howth Coast Guard were paid a visit by ‘D’ watch of Kilbarrack Fire Station in a continuation of the joint education scheme we are running with the local fire service. The District Officer covering the North Strand and Kilbarrack stations was also in attendance. Over the next few months all the watches from [...]
At 1838 this evening Howth CG were tasked to check if there was a person on the Burrow Beach cutoff by the incoming tide. A volunteer living locally was on scene in one minute and discovered that a woman was standing on the sand back which extends out from Portmarnock Golf Club to quite near [...]
Howth Coast Guard were tasked today at 1615 to search for a missing person. Belongings of the person in a bag were found at Balscadden beach at 1300 and handed into the Gardai at Howth. After investigating the bag and tracing who owned it the Gardai became concerned for the persons welfare. They had not however received [...]
Check here for some photos of ‘Grainne’ and her crew at the Bray Air Show last Sunday. Greystones Coast Guard boat was also in attendance.
On Saturday the 25th of August Howth Coast Guard boat ‘Grainne’ was tasked to three separate incidents while out on routine patrol.
The first call was to a sinking yacht on the North side of Ireland’s Eye. Grainne was in Dublin bay at the time. When she arrived the crew had just been taken off safely but the [...]
