Bernard Lucas was out on an Irish Coast Guard shout last week for a missing man in Co Clare.
The extensive search with the Irish Coast Guard s Doolin and Kilkee units, the Shannon Rescue 115 helicopter and Clare Civil Defence had a good outcome, as the elderly man was found in woodland and treated for hypothermia.
However, Bernard s Doolin unit doesn t always get days like that. One such day etched forever in his memory is September 12, 2016, when the unit lost one of its own highly experienced members - Bernard s wife, Caitriona.
Ms Lucas (41), a librarian, a mother of two, and an advanced coxswain, had offered to help out the neighbouring Irish Coast Guard Kilkee unit in a search for a missing man.
Just before 10am on Saturday, October 10 last - five days after the Government rejected public health advice to lockdown for six weeks - Dr Tony Holohan, the chief medical officer, texted Stephen Donnelly with worrying news.
71,000 US troops at Shannon in 2020 Share
MORE than 71,000 US troops passed through Shannon Airport during 2020.
While the US military use of Shannon has been hugely controversial for many years now, it has also provided Shannon with a significant amount of business. The US military traffic was particularly significant last year, as the figure of 71,000 means that more than 20% of passengers at Shannon in 2020.
Late last year independent figures provided in the Oireachtas showed that in the first ten months of the year there had been 65,965 troops at the airport. This month Transport Minister Eamon Ryan told the Dáil that there had been another 3,414 troops passing through Shannon in November and a further 1,884 in December.
It’s taken him a decade as Fianna Fáil leader but Micheál Martin has finally copped on to the rules of social-media-era politics. It’s 24/7, 365, multi-platform, never ending, always demanding and if you’re not being heard, you’re irrelevant and someone else is filling the void. The Taoiseach won’t be coming out with inane commentary from his living room on Instagram live or performing a coordinated dance routine in his back garden on Tik Tok.
Mandatory hotel quarantine to be expanded and Iceland model explored - Tánaiste
Arrivals from Brazil or South Africa or those without a PCR test are currently facing hotel quarantine. By Rónán Duffy Thursday 28 Jan 2021, 1:39 PM Jan 28th 2021, 1:39 PM 39,930 Views 68 Comments
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar at Leaders Questions today.
Image: Oireachtas.ie
Image: Oireachtas.ie
TÁNAISTE LEO VARADKAR has said that Ireland will extend mandatory hotel quarantine more widely in the coming weeks and will also give consideration to a dual-testing model employed in Iceland.
On Tuesday, the government announced new measures which force people arriving into this country to undertake mandatory quarantine either at home or in a hotel.