[3] At a subsequent meeting of the committee on 24 November 1993, it was resolved that an Inshore lifeboat station be established at Kilrush on the Shannon estuary, in response to a marked rise in the amount of leisure and commercial activity.

[1] Construction of a new boathouse and slipway was started in 1995, which featured a workshop, retail outlet, crew facilities, and boat hall for the lifeboat, carriage and Talus MB-764 County launch tractor.

[1] A B-class (Atlantic 21) Inshore lifeboat Long Life I (B-555) from the relief fleet was temporarily placed at the station on 10 April 1996, soon followed by Wolverson X-Ray (B-590).

The lifeboat, costing €185,000, had been funded from the legacy of English economist Marjorie Eileen Henrietta Grice-Hutchinson MBE, Baroness von Schlippenbach, who died in 2003 in Málaga, but was born and grew up in Eastbourne.

[5] In weather conditions of gale force 7–8, the Kilrush lifeboat Edith Louise Eastwick was launched on the afternoon of 23 February 2013 to the Foynes area, to reports of a boat adrift with engine failure, with five people aboard.