CLIFDEN | 15 NOVEMBER
When a woman from Inishbofin Island suffered severe abdominal pain, she needed to reach medical help fast. Clifden RNLI volunteers responded in the early hours of the morning, launching into a force 8 gale, a 6m swell and darkness. They took the woman to Cleggan, where an ambulance was waiting to take her to hospital. Coxswain Alan Pryce described the conditions as ‘extremely challenging and the most severe weather we’ve experienced’.