A full programme of races started the biennial Volvo Cork Week yesterday as strong winds gave way to moderate offshore breezes for the 100-boat fleet competing around the harbour.

Conor Phelan’s Jump Juice of the Royal Cork Yacht Club goes into action at Howth YC this afternoon as the eight event Irish Cruiser Racing Association National Championships gets underway.

Soldiers in Irish units of the British Army called on to quash the fighting at the GPO,

A lack of German support, despite the arms shipment, led Roger Casement to try to warn Volunteer leaders to abandon the Rising, but his message arrived too late, writes Ryle Dwyer

After a four-day series that delivered a full range of conditions, Howth Yacht Club’s Ross McDonald and the crew of Equinox won the Sovereigns Cup at Kinsale on Saturday.

If you happen to be in Cobh this afternoon, about lunchtime onwards watch out for a Cork Harbour tradition that has endured for the past 34 years.

Fine weather played havoc with the opening races of the Cork County Council IFDS World Championships at Kinsale yesterday, where racing was postponed due to lack of wind.

Fire crews battling a gorse blaze on Howth Head have contained the outbreak.

Strangford Lough sailor Robbie Gilmore held his series long form at the ISA Youth Nationals on Lough Derg yesterday to win the Laser Radial class despite a late run from the defending champion.

Emergency services have been called to Howth in North Dublin after a car was seen going into the water off the west pier.

Rescuers have recovered a man's body after a car was seen going into the sea at Howth in north Dublin.

LIGHT winds on Dublin Bay ended the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta in marked contrast to Thursday’s opening race near gale conditions and left close results across the fleet before the overall prize was awarded to the class two entry Supernova from the host port.

AN opening day set-back now appears to be a passing headache for Anthony O’Leary and his team on Antix Beag after day two of the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta.

A drifting mark off the Old Head of Kinsale upset the opening day of the Sovereigns Cup yesterday where 101-boats have gathered to decide the biennial trophy event.

A man in his 20s who became trapped on the cliffs at Deer Park Hotel in Howth, Co Dublin was rescued tonight.

ELEVEN people were rescued from the water in three separate incidents in Cork, Limerick and Dublin over the weekend.

Two former senior managers with National Irish Bank has been disqualified by the High Court from involvement in the management of a company on grounds of unfitness arising from the findings of the investigation into the 1990s tax evasion scandal in the bank.

All the children involved in the National Yacht Club junior regatta at Dun Laoghaire have been accounted for after more than 90 boats were capsized by a sudden squall.

Four crewmen have been rescued following a fire on board their fishing vessel off the coast of north Dublin overnight.

The crew of Howth ILB (Inshore Lifeboat) rescued five men who had become stranded on Ireland's Eye this afternoon.

Ireland’s sailors made little or no impact around the Saronic Gulf today, as Howth duo Tom Fitzpatrick and Fraser Brown remained 16th overall in the 49er fleet and Sydney veterans Mark Mansfield and Killian Collins tailed off again in the Star, finishing 15th to stay in last place.

The fickle ways of the seasonal Meltemi winds failed to favour Royal Cork duo Mark Mansfield and Killian Collins this afternoon, as a 13th place finish in race 5 saw them down to last overall in the Star fleet.

A British Airways plane has made an emergency landing at Dublin airport.

THE mid-summer interlude in West Cork over for another year, racing is back to full swing along the coast and this weekend will be particularly hectic in Cork Harbour, with the Royal Cork holding its annual two-day At Home Regatta.

A WOMAN who died after falling overboard from a boat berthed at Malahide Marina survived for an hour in the lethally cold waters before rescuers located her.

One man has died and his three colleagues are missing after their yacht collided with another vessel in Dublin Bay.

The Irish Coast Guard was involved in a rescue operation on Howth Head this afternoon when two men became stranded on the cliff face.