Mayday! Mayday! David is ‘running the date’ for Portrush RNLI Springwell Running Club member and long-time supporter of Portrush RNLI, David McGaffin is taking the RNLI May Day Mile Challenge to a whole new level to raise funds for the station. Monday, 26th April 2021, 1:47 pm The McGaffin family has a long association with Portrush Lifeboat with David’s late father Tom an integral part. David explained: “The first marathon I took part in was Belfast on May 6, 1985, and it was in aid of the RNLI. There was a lot of blistering, some bleeding and an amount of distress so the fact that the race is always held on Mayday, which is also an international distress signal, is not lost on me.