Orla Hassett
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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 (...)

Coast Guard volunteer Caitríona Lucas ‘made the ultimate sacrifice’
- Irish News
- December 7, 2018, 21:30
Minister for Transport Shane Ross says he has broadened a review of the State’s search-and-rescue framework in response to the highly critical finding(...)

Coast Guard criticised in report into Clare volunteer’s death
- Irish News
- December 7, 2018, 03:00
The final report into the death of Irish Coast Guard volunteer Caitriona Lucas off the Clare coast over two years ago is highly critical of safety man(...)

‘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(...)