More than 10 people die from drowning every month, according to Irish Water Safety, which has urged vigilance across Ireland’s swimming spots for National Water Safety Awareness Week.

An 11-year-old owes his life to the quick response of two recently retired lifeboat members and the expertise of the emergency services.

A shoe believed to belong to a missing Japanese woman, whose partner’s body was pulled from the sea on Sunday, has been found on a beach.

Police and coastguards today resumed a search for a Co Derry woman missing from her home for more than a week.

Police and the North's Coastguard today mounted a search of a stretch of the Co Antrim coastline after the discovery of a missing woman’s car.