Five people rescued after two incidents on Lough Derg

An RNLI lifeboat rescued five people, including an elderly man and a teenage boy from a sinking boat, in two separate incidents on Lough Derg on Saturday.

The Lough Derg volunteer crew was alerted to the first incident at 3.45pm when the Irish Coast Guard received a report of a family in difficulty near Corrakeen Islands.

The two adults and one child had taken their 20ft boat onto the lake for the first time this year when they suffered engine failure.