Emergency callouts on successive days for lifeboat  

On Monday at 8.47pm, Lough Derg RNLI lifeboat went to assist 4 people on a 35ft cruiser reported to be aground near Terryglass Bay.  
As the lifeboat approached Terryglass Bay, volunteer crew could see a flashing light signal ahead of the cruiser.  
The lifeboat made way to the red marker by Rinmaher Point on the Galway shore, and after rounding it, took soundings of the depth to the casualty vessel.  All four people on board were safe and unharmed and wearing their lifejackets. An RNLI volunteer transferred to the casualty vessel. Once he was satisfied that the vessel was not holed, he set up for a tow. 
The lifeboat took the cruiser off the rocks and out into safe water where drives and rudder were checked and found to be in good working order. 

With an RNLI volunteer remaining on the casualty vessel with her four passengers, the cruiser followed the lifeboat across the bay into Terryglass Harbour, the safest closest harbour, where it was safely tied alongside at 10.08pm.  
Christine O’Malley, Deputy Launching Authority at Lough Derg RNLI advises boat users to “study your charts and for your safety, plan your passage so that you arrive at your destination before nightfall”.
This was the second callout in successive days for the Lough Derg RNLI lifeboat. On Sunday afternoon it assisted two people on a 27ft cruiser with engine failure off Mountshannon Harbour.