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Kilmore Quay RNLI Assist Nine Anglers on May Day

Lifeboats News Release

Kilmore Quay RNLI launched this morning (1 May) to assist nine people onboard an angling charter boat that had fouled its prop east of the Saltee Islands.

Lifeboat towing boat at mouth of Kilmore Quay Harbour

RNLI/Elaine Walsh

The volunteer crew were requested to launch their all-weather Tamar class lifeboat, Killarney, by the Irish Coast Guard this morning. The lifeboat under Coxswain Eugene Kehoe and with six crew members on board arrived on scene at 10:00am. Having checked all on board were safe and well, a towline was quickly established. The lifeboat was soon under way to Kilmore Quay, arriving back at the harbour at 10.43am. Weather and sea conditions were good at the time.

The Kilmore Quay RNLI lifeboat crew involved in the call out were Coxswain Eugene Kehoe, Philip Walsh, Aidan Bates, Nigel Kehoe, Adam Kelly, Michelle Hinchy, Dean Roche

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