Indaver has rejected Air Corps safety fears over the proposed incinerator for Cork Harbour and said existing regulations and flying behaviours would mean little or no risk to aircraft.

Charity rowers who videoed a dramatic crash landing in the Irish Sea tonight spoke of their amazement at seeing the pilot clamber from the wreckage.

The wreckage of a small plane which crashed in Co Galway, causing the deaths of two people, has been removed for further examination, the Department of Transport said today.

An investigation is underway into yesterday's helicopter crash in Galway in which two men died.

British Air Accident Investigators have recovered the second black box from the private jet which crashed at Birmingham International Airport yesterday.