One student who should not feel all at sea when he opens Leaving Certificate English Paper 1 this morning is Able Seaman Colin McGrath.

IT was poignant start to the Titanic centenary year.

EFFORTS are under way to attract more visitors to Cobh in Co Cork next year to mark the centenary of the sinking of RMS Titanic.

A Royal Navy serviceman will appear in court today accused of the murder of a colleague and the attempted murders of three other crew on board a nuclear submarine.

A MEMBER of the naval service who died in a road accident on Sunday afternoon was buried yesterday with full military honours.

A 24-year-old naval service sailor has been jailed for three months and discharged from the Defence Forces for texting the location of his ship to his girlfriend.

The lawyer representing a 24-year-old naval service sailor has told his court martial there was nothing sinister in his disclosing the whereabouts of his vessel to his girlfriend by text.

THIS week we mark the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the most momentous and appalling conflict in human history.

A 21 year-old apprentice mechanic on the Navy flagship L.E Eithne has been convicted of the manslaughter of a fellow crewman who drowned in the River Liffey by a jury at the Central Criminal Court.

An apprentice mechanic on the Naval ship LE Eithne was "foolish", "stupid", even "reckless" to put a crewmate on a guardrail from where he went overboard, but he was not a murderer, a defence counsel told a jury today.

A man on trial for the murder of his Naval Service crewmate told gardai he pushed the deceased into the chest who then went over the side of the ship and drowned, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A man accused of murdering his Navy comrade told gardaí he broke a brush handle on the deceased's head in a row on board the Navy flagship, the LE Eithne.

A sailor on the Irish Navy flagship, the L.E. Ethne was assaulted, which caused him to fall from the side of the ship into the River Liffey where he drowned, a murder trial jury heard today.

The mother of a 17-year-old serving on HMS Illustrious told today of her pride and fear that her daughter may be involved in strikes against Afghanistan.

A 22-year-old sailor found drowned in Dublin’s River Liffey may have been the victim of an assault before his death, it was disclosed today.