Rescuers have passed water and food to some of the dozens of people trapped in a collapsed Indonesian gold mine, an official said, calling the gruelling rescue effort in a remote inaccessible location a "race against time".

It didn’t take long for the Irish to get in on the act. 

The nine-year-old son of Co Clare based caving hero, Jim Warny never had any doubt that his Dad would be okay during the high-risk rescue of the 12 Thai soccer boys and their coach.

An Irish-based cave diver was part of the international team who helped rescue the 12 boys and their coach in Thailand yesterday.

In a world increasingly uneasy with itself, and in a world where cynicism is engendered so often and so relentlessly, the rescue of all 12 Thai boys and their football coach from a flooded cave, where they have been trapped for more than two weeks, seems a beacon of good, uplifting news.

Last week, it was reported that FIFA had invited the 12 young soccer players and their coach trapped in a cave in Thailand to attend Sunday's World Cup final in Russia.

A Thai navy diver working as part of the effort to rescue a dozen boys and their football coach trapped in a flooded cave has died from a lack of oxygen.

The discovery of 12 boys, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old football coach alive in a Thailand cave after they had been missing for nine days is the very epitome of a very good, good human interest news story.

A father and son rescued after 28 hours trapped in a cave in Co Clare have admitted they did not prepare properly in advance.

Two men have been rescued from a cave in Co Clare where they were stuck for 28 hours.

Hang Son Doong in Vietnam is the largest cave in the world - and it's beautiful.

Cave paintings as old as those found in Europe have been found in Indonesia, raising new questions about early mankind and the development of art in prehistoric times.