The family of a young man who died earlier this year have launched a memorial fund in aid of the organisation which retrieved his body.

Some of the events taking place across Cork to commemorate the centenary of the Rising include:

A jury has returned open verdicts into the deaths of a homeless man and woman whose bodies were recovered metres from each other in the River Lee in Cork City Centre in December 2014.

Divers bravely challenged the elements day after day to recover the body of Barry Davis Ryan.

The body of a man, who entered the River Shannon in Limerick City two days ago, sparking a major search, was found this evening.

The body of a man who entered the River Shannon in Limerick city two days ago, sparking a major search, has been found.

The body of a student missing since March 6 has been recovered from the River Shannon.

The founder of the Missing in Ireland Support Service hopes to establish a missing persons alliance next year to ease the burden on families experiencing the sudden disappearance of a loved one.

The mother of a Chloe Kinsella, the 15-year-old Limerick girl whose body was recovered from the Shannon river earlier this month, has spoken of her devastating loss and urged other teenagers to seek help if they are feeling down.

The search for a man who is feared to have perished in a tragic fishing accident five days ago is continuing today after being hampered by poor weather conditions.

A volunteer search and rescue unit from Co Cork has found what experts believe may be a scuttled Second World War U-boat on the bottom of Lough Foyle.

An increasingly desperate search for a father-of-one who went missing while kayaking on a lake in Kerry on Friday morning continued over the weekend.

After surviving an overdose seven years ago, one man set out to save others, writes David Raleigh

FARMERS, the self-employed, nurses who’ve just finished a night shift, retired and off-duty gardaí are all to be found in the midst of the search for the missing fishermen at Glandore Bay.

A GROUP of volunteers has begun patrolling the banks of the River Shannon in Limerick City.

GARDAÍ are treating as a tragic accident the death of a student whose body was found in Cork city yesterday, five days after he was reported missing.

A SEARCH of the river Lee for a missing Corkman is set to resume this morning after a widescale operation failed to show up any trace of the Rochestown student yesterday.

THE father of a man who was swept to his death in the river Lee during the 2009 flood has called on the city’s authorities to build a proper slipway for search and recovery teams.

ON Christmas Day last year 28-year-old Aidan Lynch had made up his mind to take his own life.