Castletownbere's RNLI conducted a successful search operation this afternoon after a tourist was reported missing.

A Youghal man with a ‘heart of gold’ is in critical condition in Malta after he was hit by a car while on holiday with his wife.

Five men have been found guilty in Britain for conspiring to import 1.4 tonnes of cocaine on a yacht that was under surveillance by the Irish Navy and Air Corps as it travelled across 200 miles of Irish waters last August.

The Irish navy and air corps played a key role in the seizure of at least 500kg of cocaine in an international operation targeting a major drug-trafficking gang.

The crew of the LÉ Eithne are returning home to a hero's welcome in Cork this morning.

Irish sailors are heading to the Mediterranean this morning on the latest migrant rescue mission.

Irish sailors are heading to the Mediterranean this morning on the latest migrant rescue mission.

Life-saving organ donations will increase under proposed human tissue legislation which will see people’s body parts automatically gifted for transplants.

Searchers for the remaining missing crew members of Coast Guard helicopter Rescue 116 are concentrating on the area around the crash site again after the disappointment over the weekend’s flotilla exercise.

“Uncharted waters” is how one senior garda described the situation facing the authorities in responding to Tuam.

Ireland now has full knowledge on how the UK intends to exit the EU and that provides a level of insight that helps shape how to respond.

The Irish Navy ship, LÉ Samuel Beckett, has arrived back in Ireland just in time for Christmas.

It took me a while but I caught up last week with Michael MacCambridge’s America’s Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation.

Eibhlís Carcione lives in Cork city, and will be reading at the at the Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer Festival this weekend in the Kino. She won Duais Fhoras na Gaeilge in 2012. 

Almost 300 migrants have been rescued from the Mediteranian by the Irish Navy.

A 36-year-old woman who was knocked down stairs as bouncers put an unruly patron out of a pub claimed €750,000 for future loss of earnings.

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An Irish naval vessel has been involved in a mission to rescue migrants off the coast of Libya.

A migrant mother who gave birth after being rescued by the Irish Navy off the coast of Libya has named her new baby after the ship that saved her.

Family and well-wishers are welcoming Irish Navy personnell aboard the L.É. Róisín home in Haulbowline, Cork this morning.

Ireland’s Alcatraz-style visitor attraction unveils its €5m revamp this weekend as the country gets set to bask in bank holiday sunshine.

When Mark Hayes moved from Cork to LA for fame and fortune, he ended up on the same football team as Robbie Williams. So he had the celebrity friends - but no sitcom. Here he writes about trying to make it in Hollywood. His latest coup? A comedy.

It may have sounded a bit head in the clouds when the naval service announced plans to use a kite in an innovative radar system which would also help save fuel.

A ninth person has been jailed in connection with the interception of a yacht carrying cocaine with a street value of more than £160m off the south-west coast of Ireland.

The current political uncertainty we face here is nothing compared to the uncertainty of those forced to get in boats and flee for their lives, writes Brian Killoran

Fine Gael is pledging to expand the Irish naval fleet from eight ships to nine if re-elected to office, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

Supertrawlers have the place cleaned out, says fisherman

A European border and coast guard agency that could also help in patrolling the seas around Ireland, has been put forward by the European Commission.

Kehlan Kirwan talks to the winner of the InterTrade Ireland Seedcorn Competition, Ocean Survivor

WITH 100 refugees from war-torn Syria already in Ireland and up to 4,000 immigrants expected here over the next two years, it is heartening to feel the Government is actively planning to ensure they are fully integrated in Irish society. 

The Minister for Defence Simon Coveney is extending the Irish Naval Service mission in the Mediterranean.

With reference to Kinsale Environment Watch’s concerns (Letters, August 25) regarding a directive from Ministers Alan Kelly and Paudie Coffey.

Mr Mulvany’s campaign, which Sean O’Riordan reports on, (‘Global support to honour Irish Navy veterans’, August 26) is another thinly disguised attempt to compromise Ireland’s long established and most successful national defence policy, by highlighting “global support” for the recognition of the heroic action of our sailors on LÉ Clíona all those years ago.

Naval associations around the world are backing a campaign to ensure two Irish veterans are given bravery awards 53 years after they helped save a ship’s crew during an explosion.

An Irish naval crew has rescued another 225 people trying to cross the Mediterranean.

Irish naval crews have rescued another 225 people trying to cross the Mediterranean.