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Article: Life savers: farmers and fishermen, gardai and undertakers, nurses and students all busy with the minutiae of life in modern Ireland. But what sets 800 of these people is how they choose to spend their free time. These are the life savers--the men and women of the 39 Irish lifeboat stations who routinely risk their lives whenever a trawler or daredevil windsurfer is in distress in Irish waters.(Royal National Lifeboat Institution)
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- World of Hibernia
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- September 22, 2001
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From Galway city to Newcastle, County Down, from bustling Rosslare to remote Castletownbere, the rugged coast of Ireland is ringed by a remarkable circle of goodwill and self-sacrifice whose story sings still with the old Irish values that modern affluence has not changed.
It concerns the 800 Irish men and women of the 39 Irish lifeboat stations, north and south, who routinely risk their lives whenever a trawler or yacht or daredevil windsurfer is in distress. Farmers and fishermen, gardai and undertakers, nurses and students, almost all of them are volunteers. Every time an alarm sounds in the middle of the night or during some horrendous cauldron of a gale, duty ...