Yesterday afternoon Howth Coast Guard gave assistance to Helicopter Rescue 116 in an operation on the River Liffey. A person was seen jumping from O’Connell Bridge and R116 was tasked to the scene by Dublin MRCC. Two volunteers established a communications base for R116 at the scene and liaised with Gardai and Dublin Fire Brigade. [...]
BAILEY LIGHTHOUSE, HOWTH - On Wednesday night this week, members of the Howth Coast Guard unit took part in an exercise in casualty information recording and cliff rescue. Members who were new to performing the climbers role undertaken in cliff rescue were tasked to descend a static line with a safety rope in the dark [...]
Howth Coast Guard were alerted at 11.00 this morning to a person in difficulty at the Baily Lighthouse. Gardai were on scene and requested the assistance of the Howth RNLI and Howth CG. A person had climbed down on the rocks, become disoriented, and could not get off.
Three Coast Guard initial response team volunteers went [...]
UPDATE: The casualty was located 2 days later in Dublin city centre.
HOWTH, DUBLIN - Howth Coast Guard were paged at 10.30am this morning for a call-out having been put on stand-by earlier in the day by Howth Gardai. The team were requested to assist in the search for a missing person in the Howth village, [...]
BALSCADDEN, HOWTH - At 1.20pm this afternoon (Thursday 5th February) Gardai tasked Howth Coast Guard Cliff Rescue Team and the Howth RNLI lifeboat to assist a female who had got into difficulty on the cliffs at the Nose of Howth near Balscadden on Howth Head.
Members of Howth Coast Guard provided medical assistance to the casualty [...]
