An RNLI volunteer saved a life yesterday just days after qualifying as one of Ireland’s youngest helms.

A man who died while out climbing on Carrauntoohil mountain in Co Kerry yesterday has been named as Ger Duffy.

A man in his 50s has died on Carrauntoohil in County Kerry.

The RNLI have come to the assistance of nine people after a motor cruiser ran aground on rocks near Drominagh on Lough Derg.

Windsurfer Lorenzo Cubeddu may have been on the water along the west coast for up to eight hours before he managed to come ashore in Co Clare.

Mountain rescue experts have repeated warnings about the dangers of climbing on Ireland’s highest mountain range in near Alpine conditions after a man was airlifted from Carrauntoohil yesterday.

Six people have been rescued after their 38 foot cruiser ran aground in Lough Derg.

A man and woman who had gone missing on the Ballyhoura Mountains have been found safe and well.

It was a routine rescue for one of Ireland’s newest lifeboat stations but it created a little bit of RNLI history.

It is understood that a boom may have swung across the deck of the boat and struck the boy in the head.

By Eoin English

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

A man has been taken to hospital after getting out of a taxi on a bridge in Limerick and entering the River Shannon.

Three infants, including five-month-old twins, were airlifted to hospital last night after suffering severe burns in what gardaí described as a domestic accident in West Cork, writes Eoin English of the Irish Examiner.

Great sadness has been expressed at the death of a church warden after a boat capsized on Sunday in Kenmare Bay, where two men were planning a duck shoot.

The search for missing student Barry Davis Ryan will continue this morning, as a doctor on the scene of Tuesday’s tragedy praised the “valiant” and “phenomenal” efforts of rescue teams who took Barry Ryan Sr and Niamh O’Connor from the sea near Baltimore.

THE barometers used by the fishermen of old would have told you, if you needed telling in the first place.

A family escaped a Christmas Eve plane crash in Tipperary after their light aircraft fell 9,000 feet out of the sky and into a farmer’s field.

Five people, including a young child, had to be rescued on Lough Derg in Co. Tipperary yesterday after their boat suffered engine failure.

Two people aboard a 32-foot cruiser were rescued by Lough Derg Lifeboat last night.

The coastguard has repeated its safety warnings after two men died in diving accidents over the weekend.

It was no ordinary school project.

The captain of a huge cargo vessel who lost “effective control” of his ship off the Cork coast and came dangerously close to running aground, has been fined for failing to notify the coast guard of the incident.

The stormy weather which may have swept one Dutch holidaymaker to his death and resulted in another man going missing has hampered search efforts, with galeforce winds expected to batter the West Cork coast today.

Valentia Coast Guard is concerned for the well-being of two Dutch men who have been missing in County Cork since Saturday.

Overnight attempts will be made to rescue a 108-metre cargo ship stranded in high seas and strong winds off the coast of Co Cork.

The widow of a 34-year-old fisherman who died in a tragic accident on board a trawler off the Cork coast has settled her action for damages for €450,000.

The company which operates the 999 emergency calls system has defended its staff for the way in which they handled two desperate 999 calls made from a mobile phone on the stricken Tit Bonhomme after it struck Adam’s Island.

A major sea and air search is due to resume off the Cork coast this morning for a missing diver who failed to surface after a deep dive expedition.

The ship retracing the doomed Titanic’s voyage across the Atlantic was almost struck by tragedy last night after a BBC cameraman developed heart problems and was airlifted to hospital.

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.

TWO crewmen on board a yacht at the centre of a major air and sea search off the west coast have been found safe and well.

AN AIR and sea search is continuing off the Irish Coast for the missing 32ft yacht which was due to arrive into Cork six days ago but cannot be contacted.

Efforts are underway to try and locate a yacht off the southwest coast.

TWO people drowned in separate swimming accidents in Portugal and Co Clare over the weekend.

A SERIOUS tragedy was averted off the west Cork coast, lifeboat officers said yesterday after two teenagers put to sea in a small inflatable dinghy in poor conditions.

A CORONER yesterday called for improved safety signage at a spectacular spot in Valentia Island, Co Kerry, where several people have drowned.

A CORONER yesterday called for improved safety signage at a spectacular spot in Valentia Island, Co Kerry, where several people have drowned.

Rescue workers clawed their way up steep rocks in complete darkness early today to reach an injured woman on one of Ireland’s most remote islands.

A FISHERMAN who was lost overboard from a trawler off the south-west coast at the weekend is feared drowned.

One man died and five others were brought to hospital after a Galway hooker capsized today.