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‘The Irish Coast Guard was my life. That was all blown apart’
- Irish News
- December 19, 2018
There can be few rescuers in any coastal community anywhere occupying the tough and lonely position held by west Clare farmer Bernard Lucas. Bernard (...)

‘Caitríona Lucas could still be alive, if we had known what we should have known’
- Irish News
- August 25, 2018, 03:00
When Caitríona Lucas responded to a request on September 12th, 2016 to help find a young man missing off the north Clare coastline, she wasn’t aware t(...)

UK agency examines Irish Coast Guard volunteer’s death
- Irish News
- January 30, 2017, 01:00
The British Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is reviewing the circumstances surrounding the death of Irish Coast Guard volunteer Caitríona Lucas o(...)

Caitríona Lucas: First member of the Irish Coast Guard to die on active service
- People
- September 16, 2016, 11:10
Caitríona Rós Lucas (41) was an active and highly qualified member of one of the busiest Irish Coast Guard units in the country at Doolin, Co Clare. E(...)

‘You are my hero,’ says son of Caitríona Lucas at funeral mass
- Irish News
- September 15, 2016, 13:36
The son of fallen coastguard volunteer, Caitríona Lucas wept today as he said goodbye to his mother, saying “you are my hero”. At a packed Liscannor (...)

Thousands pay tribute to Coast Guard volunteer
- Irish News
- September 14, 2016, 21:12
Members of rescue organisations from across the country were among the thousands to turn out in Co Clare on Wednesday night to mourn the death of Dool(...)

Coast Guard death: Caitríona Lucas first to sign up for search
- Irish News
- September 14, 2016, 01:00
Mother-of-two Caitríona Lucas was the first member of the Doolin Coast Guard Unit to volunteer for the search mission that cost her her life. The of(...)

Six Co Clare families stranded as sea engulfs road
- Environment
- January 6, 2014
Six families have been left cut off by the sea on the Loophead Peninsula in Co Clare as storms lash the west Coast. The families have been comp(...)