Cork County Council has signed off on a €1.025m deal to buy Mallow town park from two aristocratic brothers, one of whom was once private secretary to Britain’s Princess Diana.

30 years ago next Tuesday,an Air India jumbo jet en route from Canada exploded over the West Cork coast, killing all 329 on board. Eddie Cassidy on the tragedy three nations can never forget

In the years that it took to develop the submarine as a weapon of war, many military strategists thought the idea fanciful.

A naval search for three members of the same family missing in the Irish Sea was today set to enter a new stage.

Gales today threatened to disrupt a joint Irish and British naval search for the bodies of three members of the same family who drowned during a fishing trip.

Seven people are feared dead after a trawler sank off the Donegal coast.