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31st January 2021
Caitríona Lucas, a 41-year-old librarian and mother-of-two, was a highly experienced volunteer with the Irish Coast Guard’s Doolin unit.
Irish Coast Guard volunteer Bernard Lucas has called for a re-investigation into the cause of his wife Caitriona’s death off the Clare coast in 2016.
In an interview with today’s
Sunday Independent, Mr Lucas says he finds as “shocking” the criticisms of the Marine Casualty Investigation Board (MCIB) in a report commissioned by maritime lawyer Michael Kingston.
The report by Capt Neil Forde of Marine Hazard Ltd said the MCIB was “not fit for purpose”.
It was submitted by Mr Michael Kingston to several Oireachtas committees, including the Transport and Communications Network committee which sat on Friday last.
Bernard Lucas was out on an Irish Coast Guard shout last week for a missing man in Co Clare.
The extensive search with the Irish Coast Guard s Doolin and Kilkee units, the Shannon Rescue 115 helicopter and Clare Civil Defence had a good outcome, as the elderly man was found in woodland and treated for hypothermia.
However, Bernard s Doolin unit doesn t always get days like that. One such day etched forever in his memory is September 12, 2016, when the unit lost one of its own highly experienced members - Bernard s wife, Caitriona.
Ms Lucas (41), a librarian, a mother of two, and an advanced coxswain, had offered to help out the neighbouring Irish Coast Guard Kilkee unit in a search for a missing man.