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THE COMMUNITY OF Clogherhead in Co Louth is set to welcome the latest RNLI lifeboat to be based in Ireland to their town this Sunday.
The Michael O’Brien Shannon class lifeboat, which has been named after an Irish lifeboat volunteer, is due to arrive at Clogherhead at 1.31pm.
The lifeboat is the latest in a long line of search and rescue boats provided by the RNLI to Clogherhead over the past 120 years.
The boat and its launching equipment represents a multi-million euro investment at the station. It also sees the station move from a 15-knot lifeboat to a 25-knot one, cutting vital minutes off the time it takes for the lifeboat to reach a casualty.
A significant proportion of the funding for the lifeboat has been provided through a legacy by a Wexford farmer Henry Tomkins, who was a lifelong supporter of the RNLI.
Tomkins stipulated that a lifeboat be named for his friend, the former Arklow RNLI Coxswain, Michael O’Brien.
The Shannon was designed by Derry man Peter Eyre who as child was rescued by Lough Swilly RNLI in Donegal.
The arrival of the station’s new Shannon lifeboat on Sunday will take place in front of the beach beside the lifeboat station.
It will be the first time in Ireland that the RNLI will use a SLARS (Shannon Launch and Recovery System) to launch and recover a lifeboat in Ireland. The SLARS acts as a mobile slipway for the lifeboat, which can be driven directly onto the beach for recovery.
“We want the people of Clogherhead and the surrounding areas to come to welcome the new lifeboat home. The station has been preparing for this day for a long time and there is huge excitement for it,” Clogherhead RNLI Coxswain Tomás Whelahan said.
“The past few weeks and months have been spent in preparation and training by all the crew and shore crew, to receive this incredible piece of kit from the RNLI. It is the most technologically advanced lifeboat in the fleet, and it will proudly serve the east coast for many years to come,” he said.
We are incredibly honoured to receive it and we are grateful to our donor Henry Tomkins and to the local communities, who by their generosity, have made this day possible. We hope to bring many loved ones safely home in this new lifeboat.
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Couldn’t give 2 flying ducks
@james dimaggio: at least he’s acknowledging this child.
@james dimaggio: Irrelevant comment re Varadkar, as much as I dislike him.
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@TT: hence why you clicked on the article
@TT: then why read it
I thought he was pro-withdrawal…
More like a grandad than a dad.
@Aimoo: once again he didn’t exit on time.
@SFAnkleTapper: do you mean Borexit?
@SFAnkleTapper: brilliant
When you read the wikipedia article on Johnson wiki don’t even know how many children he has – it says 5 or 6 lol
Sugar daddy still hitting the back of the net
So did she propose to him . . . given the day that’s in it?
Another poorly negotiated Withdrawal Agreement.
@Tom Bomb: I dunno, if she’s with Boris, she’s probably worse.
Ifs it’s a girl call her Mary Lou
Can you say shotgun wedding
Congratulations to them both. Johnson is a fresh looking 55.
@Daniel Dunne: thought he was in his 60s tbh
That poor woman
How is his black eye from last week looking? Don’t stray like a dog when your girlfriend is pregnant.
Get baby done.
Is he not still married to his last wife?
Could you imagine that man on top of you pounding away?
@Pete Gilmartin: I bet you did!!!
@Pete Gilmartin: why would you want to imagine something like this
The state of him
Grandfather Stanley said “Boris, round up your children”
Okay Dad “No 10”
No pun in 10 did!
Another poorly executed Withdrawal Agreement.
Poor Carrie Symonds! :o
Hardly news. At least the 6th child by at least the 3rd woman.
Imagine how the conception went! Oh get a good mental image there
Brexit baby
Is this the bird he punched the head of ??
Gross
Will she tie the knot and make an honest man of him?
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