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    HURRICANE CALL-OUT

    Apr 01, 2021 2 minutes
    Rosslare coxswain Eamonn O’Rourke

    The day Storm Ophelia struck the coast of Ireland in October 2017, is one that Coxswain Eamonn O’Rourke will never forget:

    ‘The morning in question, our whole country was bracing itself. This storm had been well forecasted for a week or more. Ferries, trains, buses were cancelled, businesses were closed, employees told not to go out to work.

    We’d been down to

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