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[Mad as Fish]

Low cloud. Rain.

Approx 1700. Red white "rescue" chopper low, direct over my location, about 8 miles east of Strandhill airport. It was flying south. So it wasn't rescuing anyone at sea, wasn't going to Dublin. A flight to the hospital in Galway?

But why would they fly to Galway when the hospital in Sligo is just as bad?

Any info or theories would be appreciated.

Training flight perhaps. We sometimes see one over Co Cork, seemingly going nowhere that a coast guard chopper has a need to go.