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Search is on-going for David Dowling

🚨Assistance Missing Person🚨 Today our crews were requested again by Gardai to assist with a search for missing man David Dowling who has been missing since Monday 8th of February. Several crews searched fields, derelict buildings from Cement Road to Hill of Rath/ Monasterboice Hill. We also had a crew check along the riverbanks. Crews …

Search Continues for David Dowling

🚨Assistance Missing Person 🚨 Search Continues. This morning our crews continued searching for missing man David Dowling who has been missing since Monday. We dispatched a crew this morning to search along the banks of the river on both sides out towards the mouth of the river. Our land crew assisted gardai searching derelict buildings …

Search for Missing Person David Dowling

🚨Callout / Assistance Missing Person🚨 At 1133am Today our crews were requested by Gardai to assist with a search for missing man David Dowling who has been missing since Monday. We immediately dispatched a number of crews including our search & rescue boat, our boat crew conducted a search from our boathouse on Horselane to …

Suicide Prevention Patrols

Each weekend we provide a Suicide Prevention Patrol in Drogheda. The patrol consists of 4 of our Volunteers patrolling the Bridges and Park areas in the Town. Members are trained in the E-Suicide Safe-talk, and also Zero Suicide training. They are also trained as Phecc Cardiac First Responders, Safeguarding, Manual Handling/Patient Handling, Garda vetted and …

Person arrested over Mornington Tower life-rings damages.

Update regarding Mornington Tower life-ring damage. 🔵 As your aware, there has been ongoing issues in the Mornington Tower area of Mornington, Co. Meath. On a weekly basis damage has been caused and we have attended the area on a regular basis to maintain/fix the life-rings. We asked you the public to assist us with …

Covid 19 Community Support

Since the start of Covid 19 in March 2020, our volunteers started providing our Community Support Service. We provided a dedicated number for people to ring who needed some help. We also registered and assist with the Louth County Council Community call centre. On a daily basis we have provided some of the following within …

Lifebuoy tampered with beside Wogans Interior

🚨LIFERING’S TAMPERED 🚨 This morning we were alerted to a lifebuoys tampered with at the side of Wogan interiors by a member of the public A crew member recovered and restaged the lifebuoys ready for use in case of an emergency If you see any liferings that have been tamperd with or see someone tampering …

Bridge of Peace Lifebuoy Tampered with

🚨LIFERING’S TAMPERED 🚨 This morning we were alerted to a lifebuoy tampered with at the bridge of peace by a member of the public. Our mobile 2 unit attended the area and located the tampered lifebuoy. A crew member recovered and restaged the lifebuoy ready for use in case of an emergency We would like …

3 Incidents Today,

🔴🔴🔴 Incidents/Call-outs 🔴🔴🔴 🔹️1st Incident🔹️ During our Suicide Prevention Patrols @0020hrs we were tasked to fixing a lifering in Mornington, which was damaged by the sea and will need re-concreting, while their we also handed over all original information and pictures to Gardai from Laytown to do with ongoing issue in the area. Crew stood …

Lifebuoys Mornington tampered with again

🚨Lifebuoy tampered with 🚨 This evening at 21.40hrs we received a callout, about a person tampering with the lifebuoys out along the Mornington coast line. We immediately dispatched our mobile 2 vehicle to the area. Upon arrival the crew came across numerous lifebuoys damage and a lifebuoy housing taken off its pole. The crew immediately …