At 21:25 this evening, the Irish Coast Guard’s marine rescue coordination centre (MRCC) paged the volunteers of Skerries Coast Guard to an incident at Loughshinny, some four miles South of Skerries. Balbriggan Gardai has requested assistance from the Coast Guard with a major search operation at a remote location in Loughshinny. Gardai had received a report that a young person may be in difficulty and requiring assistance in the area of the Loughshinny Martello Tower.
The Skerries Coast Guard rescue team arrived at the scene within minutes and met with the Gardai on scene. Given the search area included cliffs, trenches and difficult scrub land the Coast Guard’s Sikorsky rescue helicopter, Rescue 116, was deployed from its nearby base at Dublin Airport to assist with the search. With several Coast Guard rescue teams on the ground and the helicopter using its powerful NightSun searchlight and infra-red camera, the entire area was thoroughly searched, however nothing unusual was found. All teams were subsequently stood down.
Incident # 18 of 2009
