Ellie Lavery who is 7 years old and from Antrim visited the station tonight. Ellie organised a fund raising event for LNR by growing her hair for a year. Ellie asked friends and family to sponsor her upon getting her hair cut. All monies raised would then go to LNR. We are delighted to say…

Throughout yesterday and today Lough Neagh Rescue have had crew assisting in the search for a missing person at the river Foyle. As well as the crew assisting in this search the organisation remains ready for tasking in its primary area of operations – Lough Neagh & it’s tributary rivers.

On behalf of the crew and members of Lough Neagh Rescue, we would like to thank everyone for there support and generous donations at our Cookstown Flag day held on Saturday 26th November. Total Raised was £498.

Every once in a while Lough Neagh Rescue is contacted by an organisation such as a school or youth group. Recently we were contacted by a young man from the 2nd Benburb Boys brigade enquiring if they could visit one of our stations and chat with some of the crew. We always welcome visits to…

Members of Lough Neagh Rescue were invited to Ards airport to take part in an exercise with two S92 SAR helicopters, one from HM Coastguard and the other from the Irish Coast Guard. This proved to be a fantastic experience for all those present.

Lough Neagh Rescue would like to extend their sincere condolences to the family, friends and many colleagues of Caitríona Lucas. May she rest in peace.

LNR were delighted to have taken part in NIFRS exercise ‘water babies’ on Sunday 19th June at Kinnego Marina & Oxford Island. This was an ideal opportunity to refresh and test our skills alongside the other emergency services and agencies. We benefited greatly as the exercise was well organised and very realistic in its detail…

LNR would like to thank St. Jude Church, Muckamore for there prayers and kind donation of £500 towards the cost of fixing/replacing the David Grey lifeboat engines. This was very much appreciated.

We welcomed to Antrim Station a visit from Robert Goodwill UK MP Transport Minister who was in Northern Ireland yesterday to meet various search and rescue teams following funding awarded by his department of Transport. Present also were Pupils from Riverside Special School Antrim.

Justice Minister David Ford Visited Kinnego Lifeboat Station on Tuesday 23rd February seeing first hand the work Lough Neagh Rescue carry out.

A big thank you to all the crew who helped out yesterday to clean up Kinnego Station, Sands Marine and Southshore Marine buildings after the recent floods.

LNR would like to thank James Quinn, Toomebridge for his generous donation of £200. This donation is greatly appreciated.

LNR would like to thank Murdock Builders Merchants (Dungannon Branch) for selecting Lough Neagh Rescue as there Christmas charity of the year. Presenting A Cheque for £500 to Paul Duffy LNR is Darren Mc Conville Branch Manager and Max Wilson.

LNR would like to thank the Mid-Ulster Business Awards for nominating LNR as there charity of the year. The event was a big success at the event LNR were presented with donations of £2,495. A big thank you to all who donated on the night and took part in the auction.

Many Thanks To The Wash Works at Eurospar, Portadown Road for the many jeep washes. Much appreciated by all at LNR.

Many thanks to Revolution Gym (Daniel Kelly & Matty Brady) who raised £180 for Lough Neagh Rescue from group classes and gym members. Stephen Ryan (Ardboe Station Training Officer) receives the cheque.