Some 69 migrants - including 10 children - were caught trying to cross the cold English Channel in the dark during the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Six Myrtleville friends are this week planning to swim twice across the English Channel to raise money for the children’s unit in Cork University Hospital.

Six Iranian migrants have been rescued from a sinking boat as they attempted to cross the English Channel.

A cross-channel swimmer has died just a mile short of reaching France, organisers have said.