Howth CG were tasked last night at 21.25 to a report of beach walkers stranded by the tide at the entrance to Malahide Estuary. Two volunteers went quickly to the scene and confirmed that the walkers were beach anglers well used to the area just finishing up for the night and were not requiring any [...]
At 17.39 yesterday Howth Coast Guard had a request from a member of the public to assist them at their home as water was flooding their house and the street outside. Howth informed Dublin Coast Guard and went to the scene in Kinsealy with the salvage pump equipment. The pump was set up quickly on [...]
At 16.42 while out on patrol yesterday at the back of Ireland’s Eye the crew of Howth Coast Guard boat ‘Grainne’ responded to a channel 16 call to Dublin MRCC that a jetski had overturned in Howth sound and 2 kids and an adult were in the water. Grainne was on the scene in 30 [...]
On Wednesday evening the Howth CG unit visited the Clogherhead CG unit at their base and went on a joint cliff exercise in the area. Clogherhead are not a cliff rescue unit but were anxious to see the cliff team in action and gain some cliff rescue awareness as they do have some cliff sections [...]
