A new report has suggested that agencies in charge of emergency services personnel may become more "defensive" about sending out their staff in extreme weather due to the threat of being criminally prosecuted if anything goes wrong.

Ger Ryan, told Virgin Media News that he was concerned about a trend among the public to post about incidents on social media rather than contacting the emergency services.

Emergency services have responded to a stabbing incident in Limerick City.

Ireland's 999/112 emergency call centres handled almost 2.1 million calls last year, an increase of over 11% on 2017.

Well-organised unions are, or were, a positive part of Ireland’s economic evolution. Today the influence of unions is, effectively, confined to the public sector. Far too many private sector workers are denied meaningful representation.

The army is being drafted in to provide emergency ambulance cover today as the first of a series of industrial actions set to grip the country over the coming weeks takes place.

The Irish Coast Guard and the RNLI are reminding the public to be safe if they are heading to the sea today.

The emergency services have invested €125,000 in a mobile morgue and body storage system for mass fatality emergencies in the southern region.

The three men who drowned in the boating tragedy in Co Kerry have been named locally as Anatolijs Teivens, Jurijs Burcves and Valerijs Klimentengvs.

Two fishermen have been airlifted to hospital after their boat capsized on Lough Derg this afternoon.

Increasing demand on emergency services means better co-ordination is needed, according to the Minister for Environment, Denis Naughten.

A day of action is being held in Dublin today to honour the country's emergency services.

Emergency services are attending a tragic incident on the railway line near Kilkenny this evening.

Gardaí have confirmed one fatality following a three car collision in Mullingar this afternoon.

Two people have been airlifted to hospital in Britain with serious injuries after a head-on crash in Suffolk.

Latest: A male cyclist has died in Co Waterford this morning.

The emergency services have launched a service that will enable some mobile phones to send the exact location of those calling 999 to emergency services.

The removal of an ambulance from Millstreet will have a knock-on effect beyond the town and its hinterland and beyond to other areas that were serviced by the the service.

The ambulance services in Ireland need more resources if target response times are to be met, a review by the health watchdog has found.

The recent news that the North Cork town of Millstreet is to lose its ambulance is a story all too familiar to rural communities across Ireland, writes Joe Leogue

The Civil Defence is a volunteer based organisation which supports the front line emergency services such as An Garda Síochána in times of emergency.

A suspected terrorist was ‘injured’ and airlifted to hospital after armed gardaí stormed a suspect vehicle carrying explosives yesterday.

Two men have died in a fire in Sligo.

Emergency services are currently at the scene of a large fire in Dundalk.

Update 2.45pm: A motorcyclist in their 50s has been taken to hospital with suspected broken ribs.

A man has died from serious burns at Glastonbury Festival.

Latest: Gardaí have charged a 35-year-old man with four counts of assault causing harm to four children.

Up to 14 vehicles have been caught up in a multi-vehicle collision in Co Cork, according to Gardaí.

A man in his 50s has died in a house fire in Co Kildare.

A major multi-agency search and rescue operation was mounted yesterday after a man was reported to be in a distressed state on a cliff in Co Clare.

Emergency services in Spain have deployed 40 rescue experts to extricate an injured caver from deep underground.

Emergency services are at the scene of a gorse fire in Roscommon.

An Aer Lingus flight to Vienna had to return to Dublin Airport this morning after what's being described as “a technical issue” came up.