A 14-year-old girl yesterday recounted the moment when she saw her father attempt to rescue her brother and her brother’s girlfriend when a freak wave swept them out to sea, only for all three to lose their lives.

A man is being treated in Cork University Hospital (CUH) after surviving a 21m cliff fall on the Cork coast.

The Valentia Coastguard last night helped to co-ordinate the evacuation of a sinking Spanish fishing boat.

A Chinese tourist fishing off the rocks at Kerry Head was still missing last night after he was swept into the sea in the afternoon.

An investigation has been launched into a crash at a car rally in Kerry which has left two youngsters in hospital yesterday.

Gardaí are investigating a car rally accident in which a young brother and sister were injured yesterday.

Two people -a man and a woman- have been airlifted to safety from Killarney's Black Valley in Co Kerry this morning having spent the night on a river-island.

Mystery surrounds the circumstances in which two Presentation nuns died at Inch Strand, in Co Kerry, on Thursday night.

The Presentation Sisters have confirmed that two of their nuns drowned at Inch Beach in Co Kerry last night.

Search teams have recovered the body of the second diver who failed to resurface to his dive vessel off the coast of Cork today.

A diver has been airlifted to hospital and a search is ongoing for a second as major search and rescue operation continues off the Cork coast this morning.

A family of three have been rescued from their boat on Lough Derg this evening.

Valentia Coastguard said the search for a tourist still missing off the Sheep's Head peninsula, Co Cork will resume at first light, if it is safe to do so.

The coastguard, who are searching for two men missing on Sheep's Head in county Cork, say a body has been sighted in the water.

Houses, streets, and some coastal areas of Kerry were flooded for the first time in almost a half century following a combination of high tides, heavy rain and 130kph gales on Thursday night and early yesterday.

A joint Irish naval and coastguard operation has succeeded in securing the safety of 13 crew on board a stricken bulk carrier drifting without power in stormy seas off the Co Cork coast.

The rope towing a broken down cargo ship to shore off the south west coast has snapped in large swell.

A man is understood to be in critical condition in Cork University Hospital last night after he and two other men tried to swim from an island off the west Cork coast back to the mainland after their boat capsized.

A Japanese man in his late 20s died after falling from a high ridge in the MacGillycuddy’s Reeks on Saturday.

Nuala Moore was recovering last night after a gruelling swim on Sunday afternoon in which she managed to complete 1,700m at a temperature of less than 5C on a mountain late in Kerry.

Gardaí in Galway city are appealing for the public's help in finding a student who has been missing for over 48 hours.

Rough conditions off the coast of Cork have forced Valentia Coastguard to suspend their search today for a missing German diver.

The search for a diver, missing off the coast of Cork, has been called off for the night.

A search is underway this evening for a diver missing off the south coast.

A body has been recovered in the water off West Cork this afternoon.

A 19-year-old woman was fighting for her life in hospital last night after being injured when a sand dune collapsed on her in the Dingle Peninsula.

A teenage woman is being brought to hospital after a sand dune collapsed in West Kerry this afternoon.

THE bodies of some of the five missing crewmen of the tragic Tit Bonhomme trawler may still be trapped on board.

A search is underway in Galway for a man who went into the River Corrib overnight.

A man's body has been recovered from the River Shannon in Limerick City today.

THE Department of Transport was warned in 2007 that communications equipment used by Valentia coastguard was in urgent need of replacement and any delay in doing this could lead to “catastrophic failure”.

A man and a woman are recovering in hospital this evening following a two car crash on one of the Aran Islands.

A major search operation is underway in Cork harbour for a missing fisherman.

THE body of a man missing since Monday night was recovered from a narrow sea channel in Valentia yesterday.

Rescuers searching for a man swept out to sea in West Clare have recovered a body this afternoon.

The Lough Derg RNLI lifeboat was launched twice earlier to assist people in difficulty.

A search operation for a Scottish teenager missing off the west Cork coast has been called off for the night.

LOCAL boats continued to scour the waters off the west Cork coast for the Egyptian fisherman who fell overboard on Saturday morning.

A search is underway off the Cork coast for a man who fell overboard from a fishing vessel.

A major search operation is underway in Limerick city for a teenage girl who fell into the River Shannon this afternoon.

Searches for a man missing off the Kerry coast will not be carried out today due to poor conditions.

A man is recovering in hospital in Belfast after being rescued from Fair Head in Antrim.