“I DON’T plan to do it again,” skipper and owner of the Rambler 100, George David, 69, said, just hours after he was plucked from the dark stormy waters off the Fastnet Rock.

A TRAGEDY on the scale of the 1979 Fastnet Race disaster was narrowly avoided last night after a yacht taking part in the famous race capsized 20km off Baltimore, Co Cork. (Click here to see a clip of the survivors talking about the rescue.)

IRELAND’s latest set of triplets who came close to being born in a snow-bound house in the mountains owe their lives to the country’s emergency services.

Seven divers have been rescued from a boat off the coast of Co Wexford.