Nine people rescued from Devil's Ladder on Carrauntoohil amid icy conditions
Four different parties were lowered down a 100-metre stretch of the mountain.
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Four different parties were lowered down a 100-metre stretch of the mountain.
There was jubilation this week when cousins Sara Feeney and Ellen Glynn were found off Inis Oirr.
The paddle boarders rescued yesterday morning were “shaking like leaves” with the cold overnight.
A Galway RNLI crew member recounts the operation that saved two women’s lives this morning.
The incident was reported to emergency services shortly before 1pm today.
The tourist group crashed through ice while snowmobiling on Tuesday evening.
A search began from units of the Coast Guard at 8pm yesterday evening.
The new framework will be phased in over the next 18 months.
Lucas lost her life when the boat she was in capsized while searching for a missing man in September 2016.
Around 1,000 volunteers help operate the service.
The review was commissioned following the fatal crash of Rescue 116 last year.
Gardaí said that the alarm was raised shortly after 6pm yesterday evening when a swimmer got into difficulty.
The man was named locally as Russian national Andrey Maltsev.
It’s understood the man in his forties was fishing in the Pulleen Bay near Doonbeg.
Rescuers have been searching for survivors with sniffer dogs and heavy machinery.
Last night, RTÉ’s Prime Time reported that concerns over onboard mapping systems had been flagged four years ago.
A report on RTÉ’s Prime Time detailed a series of emails between pilots and the search and rescue operator in 2013.
There were at least 120 people on board the plane.
The preliminary report recommends a review of “all route guides in use by its Search and Rescue helicopters in Ireland”.
Captain Mark Duffy, winch operator Paul Ormsby and winchman Ciarán Smith remain missing.
They had been searching for a man who was missing since yesterday.
Rescue 115 and Rescue 117 were involved in the mission.
Birna Brjansdottir was missing for eight days before her body was found.
Jim Keane, aged 70, had been missing since Monday.
The search is focusing on Toe Head and Mizen Head.
The young man entered the river yesterday morning.
The rescue effort has been ongoing since around 10.30am.
Bretagne the golden retriever was a key figure of the search through the rubble in the aftermath of the World Trade Centre collapse.
The man was seen going into the water from the cliffs on Monday evening.
Barry Davis Ryan has been missing for over a week.
His mother has spoken of her huge loss after the tragedy.
His father and girlfriend died in the tragedy.
Efforts are being made to contact some 50 Irish citizens in the quake-hit region.
The Irish Air Corps assisted the Coast Guard in today’s operation.
A search is underway off the Cornish coast.
Authorities earlier declared the flight to have been an accident.
The 33-year-old entered the water at about 1.30am this morning.
The man was spotted entering the water shortly before 9am.
The two men were exploring a wreck off the Cork coast.
Most of them were eventually found but a support service has said organisations involved in search and rescue need to work together better.