Skerries Coast Guard extends its congratulations to the Skerries Community who last night were honoured with a prestigious People of the Year award at a glittering ceremony in Dublin.This award is in recognition of the community’s unrelenting support for the search for the two missing fishermen, David & Ronan, earlier this year.
To view the presenting of the award, check out the video on the Skerries News website. The full awards ceremony can be viewed on RTE player.
The Skerries community have been nominated for a People of the Year Award in recognition of their support for the search for the two missing fishermen, Ronan & David, earlier this year. The final award winner will be announced at the awards ceremony, on Saturday 10th September, to be broadcast live on RTE One from 21:30.
These prestigous national awards, now in their 36th year, are intended to honour the outstanding contributions made by individuals and organisations to the lives of others. The awards acknowledge the truly inspirational, courageous and talented people within our society.
Throughout the extensive search for Ronan & David, the Skerries community displayed an unrelenting support and dedication in assisting with the search efforts. The entire community was determined to help in whatever way they could.
More information on these awards can be found on the website: http://www.peopleoftheyear.com/
This week the Skerries Coast Guard crew celebrated the launch of the Coast Guard’s new poster campaign – “Your call could save a life”. This aims to inform the public about how to raise the alarm if they think someone is in difficulty on the coast. The poster also showcases the Coast Guard’s wide ranging Search & Rescue capability including water rescue, Sikorsky helicopters, shore rescue and cliff rescue.
The Coast Guard would strongly advise members of the public, if they think that someone could be in difficulty on the coast or cliffs to contact the Coast Guard on 999 or 112. You will then speak directly to an experienced Coast Guard incident controller who will take all the details you have. Please do not hesitate, if you gunuinely believe that someone could be in difficulty then make that call.
The Coast Guard have an impressive array of state of the art search and rescue resources together with highly trained and dedicated crews. However, it is important to remember that these crucial resources cannot be deployed until the Coast Guard become aware that someone needs help. So it is that vital first link in the rescue chain that the Coast Guard are relying on the public’s help. To put it simply; Your call could save a life.
This poster was designed and developed as a collaborative effort between the Coast Guard teams of Skerries, Howth and Drogheda with the ultimate aim of saving lives. Various public and commercial premises around Fingal have already put the poster on display. Our aim is to spread this vital message to as many people as possible and if you feel you could display the poster on a long term basis at your premises please contact us at skerriescoastguard@gmail.com
This week’s Fingal Independent includes an impressive two page article on this poster launch, featuring photos of the Skerries Coast Guard team – you can read the full article by clicking on the photo link above (opens in same window).
Flood warnings have been issued for this coming weekend, with heavy rain combined with tidal surges expected to cause flooding in coastal areas of the Western and Eastern seaboards.
Weather forecasts, in conjunction with the City’s tidal surge early warning system, suggest a severe low pressure off the west coast of Ireland in combination with southerly/easterly winds of 70km per hour gusting to 100km per hour over the coming days. The combination of high tides and low pressure increase the possibility of coastal flooding, particularly at high tide around midnight on this coming Sunday, 7th November and midday on Monday, 8th November.
Dublin City Council has started to deploy temporary flood defences in potential at risk areas. Alerts will be issued through the radio and other media when more information becomes available.
Uptodate information is available from Dublin City Council (www.dublincity.ie) and Met Eireann (www.met.ie)