Navy recruits are quitting the high seas because security obligations and occasional remoteness make mobile phone usage impossible. This addiction is, it seems, a symptom and a cause of isolation.

While pay and conditions will dominate PDForra’s annual conference, so too will overburdening stress within the ranks of the Defence Forces caused by manpower shortages.

It’s not so long ago that Jill Hamilton was helping to save countless trafficked migrants from drowning in the Mediterranean Sea.

Defence Minister Paul Kehoe has been criticised as being “asleep at the wheel” after admitting he was not “briefed in advance” over the Navy staff shortages “fiasco”, which led to two vessels being docked.

A pensioner with a "heart of gold" who has a special relationship with Malta after he donated a historic Naval crest to the country is fighting for his life after being knocked down while holidaying in the resort town of Sliema.

The memorial event also served to highlight the simmering sense of injustice felt by many, writes Noel Baker.

LÉ Samuel Beckett’s crew saved 106 migrants from drowning, revived an unresponsive baby, searched ships for suspected gun-running and, at night, watched gun battles rage on the shore between rival militias fighting for control of Libya.

A VIP passenger will be onboard LÉ Niamh when she departs her base next week for a three-month migrant rescue mission in the Mediterranean Sea, writes Sean O’Riordan of the Irish Examiner.

The Naval Service is set to expand its use of drones after their first deployment on an operational mission proved an outstanding success, capturing critical footage of a people smuggler changing his clothes to blend in with migrants.

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

A Dutch businessman has picked up decommissioned Naval Service ship LÉ Aisling for the bargain basement price of €110,000.

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The crew of LÉ James Joyce picked up the living and dead, exploited by unscrupulous Islamic extremist- connected people smugglers who packed desperate people into flimsy vessels so unseaworthy it’s extremely unlikely they’d ever make it across the Mediterranean Sea from Libya.

The crew of LÉ Samuel Beckett is on its way to the Mediterranean to take over migrant rescue operations from LÉ James Joyce, which is expected to arrive back in Haulbowline on September 30.

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

Dare is raising funds for a portable wind turbine that can generate power when a ship is stationary, writes Trish Dromey.

The brave actions of four crew members of a Naval Service ship, which nearly sunk after an incident off Cork Harbour in 1962, are to be finally recognised.

The Irish Defence Forces are well ahead of their French counterparts when it comes to planning against terrorist hijacking of passenger ferries.

The crew of LÉ James Joyce discovered 16 dead migrants onboard a metal barge who they believe died of crushing and suffocation because they were so tightly packed into the vessel.

Three members of the 60-strong crew of LÉ James Joyce are returning for the second time to the Mediterranean Sea because they are anxious to help exploited refugees.

The LÉ Róisín has completed a 12-week humanitarian mission in the Mediterranean Sea during which she rescued 1,263 migrants and recovered the bodies of four people.

The Naval Service is beginning to increase fishery protection duties having suffered a number of setbacks in recent years.

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Some of the most memorable news events of the year, both heartening and heartbreaking, were recalled at the annual People of the Year Awards.

The third Naval Service ship to embark on humanitarian duties in the Mediterranean Sea made its rescue debut by taking onboard more than 430 refugees in a combined operation with the Italians.

Proud families gathered on the quayside yesterday to welcome home the crew of LÉ Niamh, who apart from rescuing migrants, assisted in the birth of one and the double resuscitation of an infant who nearly drowned.

Simon Coveney believes the Navy will take part in more overseas missions in the future, is committed to buying it more new ships and described the welcome home for LÉ Eithne as the "highlight" of his career as defence minister.

Irish Naval personnel who have rescued over 3,400 migrants in the Mediterranean are not getting proper pay allowances.

A Naval Service crew was forced to ‘abandon ship’ when further problems were detected on the new €70m LÉ James Joyce.

As the morning sunshine slides across a memorial tomorrow morning in West Cork, a shadow on a sundial will mark the moment a jumbo jet was blasted out off the sky off the south-west coast.

Irish Naval vessel the LÉ Eithne is expected to dock in a port in Italy today with the 399 people saved from the Mediterranean in its latest rescue operation in the area.

A navy officer has described the distressing scenes he and his crewmates witnessed when they came across leaking vessels crammed with scared migrants who had no lifejackets, little fuel, and no provisions.

Ireland is considering taking migrants who illegally cross into the EU in a change from its long-held policy of opting out of such policies at European level.

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A Maltese naval crew will arrive in Haulbowline in the next few weeks to be trained to operate the LÉ Aoife, which was gifted to Malta amid some controversy.

Work on removing potentially lethal asbestos on the Naval Service ship LÉ Orla has been completed, although it will be a few weeks before she becomes fully operational again.

Three men from the north of England were arrested last night following the seizure of an estimated €88m of cocaine on a yacht during an operation which bears a striking resemblance to a drugs interception in 2008.

An asbestos clean-up has begun on a third Naval Service vessel after the potentially lethal substance was found on board last Saturday.