Drogheda River Rescue

Response to call out

At 4:45pm this evening Drogheda River Rescue responded to a call out assist for an individual in distress. Unit 1 arrived on site and provided the help needed to put the distressed individual at ease passing the matter over to the guards. Remember there is always someone here to help and you are never alone. …

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 …