A diver rescued by a Naval Service ship after getting into difficulties at the site of the Lusitania wreck was later airlifted to hospital, reportedly suffering from decompression sickness, otherwise known as 'the bends'.

A man who was trapped in rocks with water up to his neck in England was freed after spending nearly four hours in the sea.

The rescue services in England have managed to extract an exhausted horse from mudflats on a beach.

A man has been airlifted to hospital after getting into difficulty while paddle boarding off Bray Head in County Wicklow.

A family of four and their pet spaniel had to be dramatically rescued after getting stranded in a rising tide under cliffs in the north-east of the UK.

The Coastguard says it saved the lives of 335 people this year.

Equipment that may belong to one of the missing crew from crashed Irish Coast Guard helicopter Rescue 116 has been washed ashore.

A Coastguard crew winching two scouts from the sea simultaneously when one fell had never performed the operation before, writes Louise Roseingrave.

The accidental activation of a location beacon on board a yacht triggered a lifeboat launch this morning, reports Eoin English.

A man has been airlifted to hospital after falling at the Cliffs of Moher in Co Clare, reports Pat Flynn.

A man has been airlifted to hospital after he was injured in a swimming accident in Co Clare this evening.

A search for a man reported missing from a North Sea rig has been scaled back.

It is now over 50 days since Coast Guard helicopter Rescue 116 and its crew came to their tragic and untimely end.

A report into the Rescue 116 helicopter crash has recommended there should be a review of route guides in use by search and rescue helicopters in Ireland

Searchers for the remaining missing crew members of Coast Guard helicopter Rescue 116 are concentrating on the area around the crash site again after the disappointment over the weekend’s flotilla exercise.

The family of missing Rescue 116 crewman Ciarán Smith says gestures of support from all over Ireland have given them strength to carry on.

The Air Corps is almost 25% below its recommend strength with more than 200 vacancies across all ranks.

Latest: The three missing Irish Coast Guard crew members have been named locally as Mark Duffy, Ciarán Smith and Paul Ormsby.

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Not in Caitríona Lucas’s wildest dreams would she have imagined that she would have had such an effect on people.

In a year in which an Irish Coast Guard volunteer died in the course of duty, the service says it has rescued or assisted 405 people in 2016.

The Coastguard has released footage of a night-time clifftop rescue of a climber during a force nine gale.

A major search operation is set to resume later for a man in his 50s missing of the coast of Co Donegal.

A body was been recovered from the base of the Cliffs of Moher.

'Keep your lilo for the swimming pool.' - that is the message from rescue workers after fifteen people found themselves at the centre of call-outs yesterday, in stormy conditions at sea.

A major search has been launched for three divers reported missing off the coast of the North.

At least five migrants have drowned in the eastern Aegean Sea after a small plastic boat capsized, the Greek coastguard said.

Three fishermen have been winched to safety after their boat caught fire about 40 miles off the Cornish coast.

The Coastguard saved 290 lives in 2015, a rise of 12% compared to last year.

Three men and a dog have been airlifted to safety by the Coastguard this evening.

The search for a missing lobster fisherman off the coast is being stood down for the night.

Gale force winds off the coast of Mayo are hampering search efforts for a missing lobster fisherman.

The boat belonging to a missing lobster fisherman has been found at Broadhaven Bay in Co Mayo.

A man has been rescued from the sea off Co Wexford by a Coastguard helicopter.

Searches are to resume this morning in Co Clare for two Japanese tourists.

A man has died and another is in hospital following a fishing accident in County Waterford.

The Coast Guard has issued a warning after racing pigeons and a flare triggered a search operation in West Cork at the weekend.

Coastguard crews are continuing to search the coastline around Kerry Head for a missing Chinese angler.

A teenage tourist has been airlifted to hospital after he fell from a cliff in Co Clare this morning.

A man has been airlifted to hospital after an accident in the Comeragh Mountains in County Waterford.

The Coastguard responded to 2,627 incidents last year.