Courtmacsherry lifeboat crew’s busy day closes with dog rescue

A dog stranded on cliffs was one of three weekend callouts dealt with successfully by a West Cork lifeboat in 24 hours.

The rescue of the Rhodesian ridgeback in Courtmacsherry Bay by the local RNLI team on Friday night came less than an hour after they had towed a fishing boat to safety in their all-weather lifeboat the Sir Frederick Storey Cockburn.

The 18m vessel, with a crew of five, got into difficulties 3km off the Seven Heads and was found drifting at 6.10pm. It was towed in in two hours, in a 1.5m swell, to Courtmacsherry pier, under lifeboat coxswain Seán O’Farrell and a six-member voluntary crew.