A new organisation to promote diversity and gender equality in the fire service has been launched at the annual conference of Chief Fire Officers today.

Dublin Fire Brigade said a person became trapped in a flat in Dublin's city centre after a moped caught fire that was blocking the front door early this morning.

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

Latest: Dublin Fire Brigade says some of its life-saving equipment stolen from a pub in Cabra has been returned.

A gorse fire has broken out in Sutton in North Dublin.

One man has been taken to hospital following a substantial fire on Dublin's southside.

Firefighters are calling for new equipment to help fight fires in Dublin city and county.

A report into fire brigade facilities on the country’s second most populated island, Arranmore, has found that the services are “extremely limited” and in some areas below standard.

A fire brigade crew successfully resuscitated an unresponsive patient when no HSE ambulance was available locally to respond to the emergency call, reports Pat Flynn.

Three units of Dublin Fire Brigade are at the scene of a serious blaze on Three Rock Mountain tonight.

LATEST: A group of Limerick rugby players were left "devastated" when a young woman perished at their home during a fire in the early hours of this morning.

A fire at Bray in county Wicklow has sent a plume of smoke across south County Dublin this morning.

Dublin City Fire Brigade have been called to a fire at St Teresa's Gardens in Dublin.

Sparks flew at the emergency department at the Mater University Hospital in Dublin as fire brigade personnel were called in to use an electric angle grinder to remove a metal ring from a man’s penis.

SIPTU members in Dublin Fire Brigade will within two weeks complete a ballot for strike action resulting from the refusal of the senior management of Dublin City Council to resource an additional four ambulances to meet service demands in the city.

Multiple units of Cork City Fire Brigade attended a fire above Oasis in the city centre today.

Fire Officers are urging you to be safe this Halloween.

A union which represents 200 firefighter paramedics in Dublin Fire Brigade is meeting today to consider new measures relating to ambulances.

Siptu is to ballot its members in Dublin Fire Brigade for industrial action over plans to put the city’s ambulance service call and dispatch function under the HSE’s control.

Wicklow County Council’s legal team has asked that recordings of phone calls made at Bray Garda Station during the investigation into the deaths of two firefighters be made available to their inquest.