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Coast Guard personnel include full-time paid employees, [22] and unpaid volunteers. [23] For example, a member of the Coast Guard, Caitriona Lucas, who died while on a rescue/recovery mission in County Clare in 2016, was a volunteer. [24] Not all Irish Coast Guard members have enforcement powers – only some officers under warrant. [citation ...
The Irish Defence Forces established a Coast Watching Service in the run up to World War II, known in the Republic of Ireland as The Emergency, while the State remained neutral. Between 1939 and 1942 the construction of 83 Lookout Posts, LOPs, took place at strategic points (every 5–15 miles) along the Irish coastline and the local volunteers ...
Each station has a Station Officer in command, assisted by a Deputy Station Officer; staff at the MOC are supervised by a Senior Watch Officer, assisted by a Watch Officer. Until 2010 Station Officers and Watch Officers reported to a Sector Manager, who was responsible to the Chief Coastguard. From the establishment of the service in 1989 until ...
Rank insignia in the Irish Defence Forces are an indication of the wearer's military rank, and worn by officers and enlisted members of Ireland's Defence Forces as an element of their uniform, typically on a single chest tab or as a shoulder board.
Pages in category "Irish Guards officers" The following 118 pages are in this category, out of 118 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Waterford-based coast guard helicopter R117, and Rosslare RNLI were sent to the scene where a fishing vessel was aground on a sandbank off the coast of Blackwater, Co Wexford.
Meanwhile, Kate will become Colonel of the Irish Guards, a role previously held by William, who will take the Colonel of the Welsh Guards title from his father.
Dara Fitzpatrick (15 October 1971 – 14 March 2017) was the Irish Coast Guard's most senior helicopter search and rescue pilot. [1] As a Captain, she piloted the Dublin-based Rescue 116 helicopter. She was killed in the 2017 Irish Coast Guard Rescue 116 crash in March 2017.