Eight people were rescued on Lough Derg on Thursday night after a cruiser ran aground in Co Tipperary.
The alarm was raised at 9.28pm when the 45 foot vessel aground by Ryan’s Point, inside the Mountaineer Bouy at Barrack Bay.
The alarm was raised just before 9.30pm when the 45ft vessel ran aground by Ryan’s Point, inside the Mountaineer Buoy at Barrack Bay.
The RNLI lifeboat launched 10 minutes later and got to the scene at 9.55pm.
All eight people were unharmed and safe, they wore their lifejackets.
An RNLI volunteer boarded the cruiser.
Once he was satisfied that the vessel was not holed, he set up for a tow and the lifeboat tried to take the cruiser off the rocky shelf.
However it was stuck on the rocks.
The passengers were taken to the lifeboat and brought to Garrykennedy Harbour for the night.
Valentia Coast Guard arranged for the casualty vessel to be seen first thing on Friday morning.
Peter Kennedy, Deputy Launching Authority at Lough Derg RNLI advises boat users to ‘study your charts and plan your passage, paying close attention to the naviagation buoys’.
