A "one in a million" ghost ship first spotted floating off the African coast six months ago has washed up onto rocks west of Ballycotton in Co Cork.

Two men died yesterday after their light aircraft crashed into a mountain in Co Wexford.

The search for a Dutch tourist missing since last Saturday resumes today after the body of his friend was taken from the sea off the West Cork coast yesterday.

A 25-year-old diver has died in an incident near the Saltee islands off the Wexford coast.

THE bodies of some of the five missing crewmen of the tragic Tit Bonhomme trawler may still be trapped on board.

TRAGEDY was averted off the coast of Cork last night after a fishing boat started taking on water in the midst of heavy seas and force eight gales.

“I DON’T plan to do it again,” skipper and owner of the Rambler 100, George David, 69, said, just hours after he was plucked from the dark stormy waters off the Fastnet Rock.

A TRAGEDY on the scale of the 1979 Fastnet Race disaster was narrowly avoided last night after a yacht taking part in the famous race capsized 20km off Baltimore, Co Cork. (Click here to see a clip of the survivors talking about the rescue.)

IRELAND’s latest set of triplets who came close to being born in a snow-bound house in the mountains owe their lives to the country’s emergency services.

Seven divers have been rescued from a boat off the coast of Co Wexford.