The all weather Arranmore RNLI volunteer crew responded to three calls to help with medical evacuations from the island on Friday evening October 20, again on Monday morning October 23 and a further call yesterday Tuesday 24. Patients requiring medical assessment are transported by lifeboat to Burtonport where they are met by ambulance for transfer […]
Three people and dog rescued by RNLI at Maghera Strand
By Dionne Meehan THE Killybegs Coast Guard was tasked on Saturday night after three people and a dog were left stranded on the rocks at Maghera Strand. The team were tasked at 7:15pm by Malin Head Coast Guard after the group got into difficulty while walking from An Port when high tides cut the group […]
Song released to recall Gold Medal Sea Rescue
On December 7, 1940, the crew of Arranmore lifeboat risked their lives to rescue 18 men in the worst weather conditions that locals can remember
Father and son rescued off Gola Island
ARRANMORE RNLI lifeboat spent the early hours of Friday morning assisting a father and son on bard a 30 foot yacht who got into difficulty off Gola Island in the dark.
Arranmore RNLI evacuates injured man on Ederinis Island
THE lifeboat crew at Arranmore RNLI was called to Ederinis Island off the coast of Burtonport at 12.45pm today to assist in the evacuation of a man who fell from the roof of a house on the island.
Arranmore Lifeboat comes to rescue of Fanad vessel
THE Arranmore Lifeboat called to the rescue of a Fanad crabber vessel yesterday afternoon making a twelve-hour round trip on St Patrick’s Day.
Arranmore Lifeboat volunteers brave high seas to assist injured woman
ARRANMORE RNLI volunteers battled severe winds and four metre waves on Sunday last as they went to the assistance of a woman who had dislocated her knee on Tory Island.