Lifeboat crews rescue eight people in three separate incidents in Cork and Dublin

The Howth all-weather lifeboat tows the broken down motorboat back to Howth Harbour. Picture: Howth RNLI

Eight people were rescued by RNLI lifeboat crews in three separate incidents off the Cork and Dublin coasts on Sunday. 

On Sunday, a lifeboat launched to help a motorboat that had suffered engine failure about two miles north of Ireland's Eye, an uninhabited island off the coast of Howth. Three people were on board.