Two giant sharks, which together weigh more than the entire Munster pack which started last weekend’s Pro12 final, have been caught off the Clare coast.

Right now the second largest super trawler in the world is fishing off the Irish coast. It drags a net bigger than a football field and can process over 250 tonnes of fish a day.

Almost better than the real thing.

Deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean, between Greenland and Norway, scientists have found micro-organisms they call a missing link connecting the simple cells that first populated Earth to the complex cellular life that emerged roughly 2bn years ago.

A traditional seaside resort is in need of modernisation to help it capitalise on the Wild Atlantic Way.

Salvage experts have recovered the keel of a multi-million euro racing yacht from the seabed almost three years after it failed, triggering one of the most dramatic sea rescues of recent years.