Seven people have been arrested on suspicion of immigration offences after a yacht got stuck on the River Ore.

Another October bank holiday weekend comes and goes but the weather remains the same — wet, windy and miserable.

A man is understood to be in critical condition in Cork University Hospital last night after he and two other men tried to swim from an island off the west Cork coast back to the mainland after their boat capsized.

A crew had to jump aboard an unmanned runaway speedboat heading for a busy pier, in what was one of four dramatic rescues Baltimore RNLI performed in just 24 hours.