From barbeques to bathers and buckets of ice-cream, the weekend is set to be sizzling with more to come, as a heatwave is on the way and set to strike next week, with temperatures expected to soar to 29C.

A community-run water rescue unit is urgently seeking volunteers.

The National Ambulance Services (NAS) can now pinpoint the scene of an emergency using a location code that is not based on a building or address.

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Dean Byrne was turning around to pull two children out of a treacherous lake when he saw their mother staring at him from under the water.

A third of all drowning victims will have consumed alcohol prior to their death.

From the roof of the world to its deepest caves and oceans, extreme artist Philip Gray has pushed his body to the limit for his art.

The dangerous Lion's Mane jellyfish has been spotted at several Irish beaches.

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.

A new regulatory framework for water safety at Irish swimming pools is to be implemented following the death of a three-year-old boy last year.

A father of five from Co Cork who has saved two people from drowning in separate incidents over the last decade, will be among 47 people from across the country who will today be rewarded for the bravery they showed in water rescues.

The privatisation of the country’s swimming pools is having an adverse effect on the provision of safety classes for children, the statutory body established to promote water safety has said.

Ireland’s water safety watchdog has called for compulsory water safety programmes in all schools after figures in its annual report showed a rise in the number of people who died by drowning.

Bathers along the east coast are being warned to stay away from popular beaches this weekend after an influx of the dreaded Lion's Mane Jellyfish.

Water safety campaigners have reminded everyone out enjoying themselves by the water to be careful over the August bank holiday weekend.

Irish Water Safety is warning families to play it safe in the current hot spell.

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Two fishermen who were saved off the Cork coast just moments before their vessel sank have been praised for raising the alarm quickly.

Emergency services have issued a joint water safety warning ahead of the June bank holiday weekend.

Children are ‘almost guaranteed’ to get into difficulty at a specific attraction at the National Aquatic Centre (NAC), an inquest heard.

A rare benefit of the poor summer weather has been a significant reduction in the number of swimmers having to be rescued by lifeguards over recent weeks.

More than 830 people were rescued from drowning by lifeguards at bathing sites around the Irish coast last year, with almost half of all such incidents taking place in Kerry.

She may have driven Fr Ted to distraction more often than not, but Mrs Doyle and her inevitable cup of tea are about to drive home a very different message over the weekend.

Trawler owners, skippers, and workers have been urged to create, as a priority, a greater safety culture within the fishing industry.

Gardaí have recovered a major haul of stolen marine equipment, including 10 boats, 74 outboard engines, generators, and trailers.

A multi-agency red alert initiative has been launched in a West Cork peninsula aimed at preventing expensive equipment being stolen from boats berthed locally.

Almost a third of the 114 people who drowned in 2014 did so while taking their own lives, according to figures compiled by Irish Water Safety.

A €500,000 National Lifeguard Training Centre will be officially opened today in the seaside resort of Tramore, following a unique collaboration between agencies.

The country’s water safety watchdog has appealed for more people to undertake suicide prevention courses, after another spate of drownings that may have been linked to self-harm.

I read with interest Councillor Noel Collins’s letter (Irish Examiner, January 24). He raised issues about dangerous beaches and waters.

Singer-turned-hero Damien Dempsey didn’t make a song and dance yesterday about the summer day he saved a swimmer’s life. The Dublin native waded into the River Slaney in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, and helped pluck a drowning man to safety.

The number of deaths by drowning in Ireland last year was the lowest in over 75 years.

Lifeguards across the country are combing beaches for infestations of Lion's Manes and Portugese Man O'War jellyfish.

In light of three deaths off the south-west coast in the space of just two days, Irish Water Safety has reiterated critical health and safety advice to anyone intending to swim or take a boat out over the coming days.

Swimmers have been warned about jellyfish on Irish beaches.

Baywatch made it look sexy but in reality, the role of a lifeguard is far more pedestrian, if no less essential: In between saving 413 swimmers last month, lifeguards reunited 353 lost children with parents.

The heroic actions of a garda who has saved the lives of two people over the past two weeks have highlighted the need for better water safety in Ireland.

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Forecaster Met Éireann has said the sunny weather enjoyed by the country over the last week is set to last until at least Tuesday.

Irish Water safety is reminding people to take care when swimming in open water during the hot spell.

A man who rescued four children from a sandbank amidst a fast-rising tide in Co Kerry last summer was among 36 people to receive bravery awards in Dublin Castle yesterday.