Thanks to all who came and supported the Howth Coast Guard car wash at the station yesterday. In all €1600 was raised and it will go towards funding Coast Guard volunteer Kieran’s trip to Haiti to assist in rebuilding homes destroyed by the January earthquake.
Thanks to all the volunteers who turned out to wash and [...]
Volunteers from Howth Coast Guard were on hand today to assist at the Fat Turkey charity Hill Walk around Howth organised by Suttonians rugby club.
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 [...]
Today Sunday 20th December 2009 Santa visited the boys and girls in Temple Street Children’s Hospital.
“Santa was on a trial run for the big day over Dublin Bay when Dancer, one of his Reindeers, felt unwell. Santa had to make an emergency landing on Dollymount Beach. Luckily the Howth Coast Guard Cliff Rescue Team was [...]
Three volunteers from Howth Coast Guard unit assisted today at the release of two rescued seals by the Irish Seal Sanctuary.
‘Laura Lee’ was rescued on the 20th September 2009 orphaned and emaciated and only 4 days old. ‘Gerry’ was rescued a month later, on the 18th October 2009, underweight and with a bad cold. They [...]
Check out the website of the new Irish Coast Guard Historic Society.
The Society is a group of Irish Coast Guard volunteers who give their time freely to the collecting and restoring of equipment previously used by the Irish and UK Coast Guard.
The society will be showing it’s equipment at the Salute Military Show in Swords [...]
Today started early for the volunteers in Howth with a pre-arranged exercise at 09.30 with Coast Guard Helicopter ‘Mike Echo Sierra’. The exercise involved the helicopter deploying two liferafts into the sea while hovering above. The helicopter crew keep a line in the aircraft after the dropping and then pull the line to inflate the [...]
Over the next ten days Howth Coast Guard volunteers will be visiting Malahide, Portmarnock, Sutton, Howth and Dollymount to inform the public on water safety. The crew will have the Coast Guard safety information trailer on display along with safety DVDs and information booklets and handouts. The team will be on hand to give information [...]
Today, 6th August 2009, at 16.20 Howth Coast Guard were tasked to a missing male swimmer on Portmarnock Beach.
The swimmer’s family had reported him missing to the Beach Life Guards at Portmarnock. The lifeguards contacted the Coast Guard Marine Rescue Control Centre and twenty volunteers from the Howth Coast Guard Coastal Search Unit along with the [...]
After months of early morning training sessions and strictly controlled diets the day of reckoning for Dublin’s Emergency Services Swimming Teams came. With all the swimmers lined up tensions were high at the starting line on Claremont Beach. A false start occurred after the 14.44 southbound Dart sounded its horn which was mistaken for the [...]
