Lifeboat to join Kilrush service

VOLUNTEERS at Co Clare’s only coastal RNLI station have received a new state-of-the-art lifeboat which will enter service this weekend.

The planned purchase and delivery of the new Atlantic 85 B Class lifeboat had been signalled by RNLI chief executive Andrew Freemantle on a visit to Kilrush last year shortly before he retired.

The latest model in rigid inflatable inshore lifeboats arrived in the west of the county on Tuesday night.