Ireland's Search And Rescue (2012)
The six part series, presented by Claire Byrne, tells the story of Ireland's Search and Rescue across the country, from Kerry to Donegal, Doolin to Dublin, working with all four Irish Coast Guard helicopter bases in Dublin, Waterford, Shannon and Sligo as well as RNLI stations and Mountain Rescue teams nationwide. This series also shows the work of Cork City Fire Brigade and volunteer Coast Guard groups like Doolin and Howth. As well as showing rescue footage, we also profile individual groups and show how many agencies work together in dangerous environments to save lives. Volunteers are a vital part of Search and Rescue across Ireland. Across the country builders, fisherman, nurses, engineers and doctors give up their spare time to organisations like the RNLI, Mountain Rescue and the Irish Coast Guard units.
Seasons & Episode
The first episode tells the story of the search and rescue mission for the crew of the fishing vessel the Tit Bonhomme and follows the multi-agency rescue in Portmarnock, when a local mother accidently drove her car over a cliff with six children inside.
A boat bursts into flames in Cork Harbour. Stranded on rocks and hanging over an incoming tide, a Cork teenager needs the help of Crosshaven RNLI Doolin coastguard race to save a climber who has fallen from the sheer heights of it's Mirror wall. Dublin Wicklow Mountain rescue respond to a hunter who is immobilised on wet ground.
A dual-agency rescue of a sinking Trawler, off the coast of Howth Co. Dublin Donegal Mountain Rescue get called to action as a couple's romantic day out turns into an ordeal when they get lost on Muckish Mountain Cork City Fire Brigade take no chances when a tumble dryer goes on fire.