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Community Support and Suicide Prevention Patrol

💚✨Suicide Prevention Patrols 💚✨ ☎️ 089 250 5562 Been a busy day for our crews today ▪️We collected and delivered prescriptions around the North East area. ▪️Pick up shopping for people who are isolating in their homes. ▪️Dealt with lifebuoys been tampered with out in Mornington. Now our crews are currently getting ready to head …

Liferings damaged Mornington Tower

🚨PUBLIC HELP NEEDED🚨 We here at Drogheda River Rescue are asking you the public to help us in anyway to track down and catch those involved in the tampering of the lifebuoys at Mornington beach tower Co Meath This is an constant ongoing incident in which all lifebuoys are being damaged multiple times a week.This …

Suicide Prevention Patrols

✨Suicide Prevention Patrols ✨ ☎️ 089 250 5562 Our crews are currently getting ready to head out and about for our first suicide prevention patrols of the weekend. While out patrolling the Bridges and Park areas we will check all the lifebuoys and restage any that have been tampered with. If you see us out …

Why not – Fundraise for the Rescue

While we’re in Level 5, we want you to think about the work were doing in the community. So please put your thinking hats on to start planning your fundraisers for us. And when its safe, do it and help us raise some vital funds. Get in touch with us if you would like to …

Boyne canel flooding

🚨Incident Oldbridge area🚨 Mobile 1 is currently on scene. The Boyne Canel has broke its bank’s between Oldbridge House and Obelisk Bridge area. Please avoid the walkway area as its currently impassable beside the Obelisk bridge. Please take care while driving in the area, warning signs have been put in place.On scene Meath County Council, …

Support Fiona Smyth’s Head shave for Rescue

From all of our crew here at Drogheda River Rescue we would like to say a big thank you to Fiona Smyth who is doing a head shave in aid of us! 🔻 🔻 🔻 🔻 🔻 🔻 🔻 After the hectic year 2020 has been and with no sign of this pandemic ending soon, …

Community Covid19 support

Were here to help. Our Mobile units have been and continue to assist those who ring us directly or via the Louth Community call number. Food packages and shopping done yesterday, dinners being collected and dropped off today. Remember, the Louth Community Call remains fully active and are here to assist those who are elderly …

Dominics Bridge Life-ring interfered with

We received a call from member of the public regarding a lifebuoy in the river at Dominics Bridge. Mobile 2 attended the area and found the lifebouy under Dominics bridge wrapped around some tree branches, a crew member suited up and went down onto the banks of the river to retrieve the lifebuoy. We ask …

Call-out Mornington Tower Liferings damaged again

Incident / Call-out Mornington Tower Today at 1123hrs We received a call reporting issues with the life-rings in Mornington Tower. On arrival we discovered that the life-rings that were repaired only yesterday by Drogheda River Rescue and Recovery had been targeted/damaged yet again. 1 life-ring housing has been knocked off the pole, while other life-ring …

Mornington Tower callout

Call-out Mornington Tower Today at 1402hrs we received a call reporting issues with the life-rings in Mornington Tower. On arrival we discovered 3 life-rings damaged, the rope had been cut. Also a further 3 missing altogether. And 1 housing removed. We repaired the 3 with new rope, and placed 3 new ones in the empty …