All four Naval Service Reserve (NSR) motor launches have been decommissioned due to their age, while the strength of the back-up force has significantly decreased and is desperately short of young people.

The Naval Service’s flagship LÉ Eithne is today steaming close to Gibraltar on her way to the Mediterranean, where she is being deployed to save migrants from drowning.

A MAJOR air, sea and land search will resume again at dawn today for missing fisherman, Gerry Hegarty, who fell into Cork Harbour after the small boat he was in capsized.