Howth Coast Guard were alerted at 17.55 yesterday to a report of a person in the water in Howth Harbour. The team responded and attended the scene but the person had been recovered quickly by a tender from the yacht club and brought to the lifeboat station to be assessed. The person concerned made a [...]
Howth Coast Guard were tasked tonight at 18.29 to a report of a person falling into the water in Howth harbour. The team assembled quickly and went to the scene. Howth ILB along with the crew from a trawler had recovered the casualty to the pier and the lifeboat crew then gave first aid as [...]
Howth were tasked tonight at 23.02 to check reports of a flare sighting over the Sutton area. It had been reported by a member of the public and Dublin air traffic control. A unit from the team checked the North side of Sutton and Portmarnock strand. Nothing was found after the search of the area [...]
Today at midday, Howth Coast Guard responded to the upper cliff sections near Howth Summit, where a car and driver had sustained a heavy impact after leaving the path and sliding approx 100m steeply down-hill to the cliff edge. After locating the car the sole occupant was stabilised by paramedics and then removed from the [...]
Howth Coast Guard were tasked tonight at 19.34 to a person in the water in Howth Harbour. Gardai were already on scene and requested Coast Guard assistance. Howth ILB was tasked to assist.
The ILB launched quickly and recovered the person from the water. The person was removed to hospital by a waiting ambulance and is [...]
Howth Coast Guard were alerted at 18.21 tonight to assist CG Helicopter rescue 116 in the recovery of a casualty at Balscadden who had been out walking, had fallen and sustained a broken leg. Dublin Fire Brigade were on scene and had requested the helicopter to assist as the casualty was off track and away [...]
Howth Coast Guard were tasked by MRCC Dublin at 21.49 last night to assist Gardai in the search for a missing person who had left a group of walkers on the cliff path earlier in the day but did not rejoin the group. The group were concerned for their colleague and reported it to Gardai.
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Howth Coast Guard were tasked today at 14.30 to assist the Gardai in the recovery of a body from a beach at the bottom of the cliffs on the South side of Howth peninsula. The volunteers assembled at the station and went to the scene. Helicopter Rescue 116 was also tasked and arrived on scene [...]
Howth Coast Guard were tasked at 04.46 this morning to investigate a flare sighting at Sutton. It was seen at the Sutton golf club by a member of the public. A unit from the team went to the scene. Conditions were calm and after a search nothing was found and no vessels were in trouble. [...]
On Saturday last at 15.45 Howth Coast Guard boat was tasked by MRCC to a report from a yacht of teenagers in inflatables with no lifejackets on the water near Balscadden beach. At the time the boat was at Malahide estuary undertaking a boat readiness inspection. The boat went to the scene and found 2 [...]
