A woman has been airlifted to hospital after she fell in the Comeragh mountains.

Search teams are combing the River Shannon in Limerick after a teenage girl was spotted in the water last night.

Gardaí are treating death of a young boy in a Co Clare river as a tragic accident.

A Government minister visited Wexford today to express his sympathies to the families of those bereaved in the Rising Sun tragedy as the search went on for the captain of the ship and a diver killed during the search operation.

TWO fishermen were miraculously plucked from the sea hours after their fishing boat sank off the Saltee Islands yesterday afternoon. A third man is still missing.