The entire Irish Coast Guard fleet has been upgraded with the unveiling of a new search and rescue helicopter for the Dublin region today.

The head of the US Coast Guard (USCG) has made a whistle-stop visit to Ireland amid tight security.

An Irish company has launched a free app to help save lives at sea.

Pennsylvania’s Chris Reynolds, who buys and sells car parts online, checked his PayPal account to discover he had become by far the world’s richest man.

Let's build a Death Star.

Two separate boating tragedies that claimed the lives of three men on a single day last August could have been avoided if proper precautions had been taken.

The coastguard could lead search and rescue operations for Nasa in the North Atlantic when the US space agency resumes manned space missions in 2016.

It operated for over a century out of a shed with no running water. But now the members of one of Ireland’s busiest Coast Guard units can boast one of the most advanced bases in the country.

There is a sense of deja vu about all this.

Senior management at the Irish Coast Guard has slated parts of the first draft of a report into the service which Transport Minister Leo Varadkar is using to push through major reforms and cost-cutting rationalisation, with the likely closure of Valentia and Malin Head stations.

The Coast Guard is developing an iPhone app to help save lives at sea.

The young son of a Coast Guard volunteer tragically killed last March became the first civilian to board the new €35m search and rescue helicopter launched in Goleen on Saturday.

THE north and west bore the brunt of gales yesterday, with flash floods, trees brought down and forecasters warning of hurricane- force gusts battering inland.

Energy chiefs today warned of further possible damaging floods along the Shannon after the swollen river reached record levels.

Authorities trying to control a huge oil slick threatening Irish and Welsh coastlines were today hopeful mild weather conditions will avert an ecological disaster.

RELATIVES of the five fishermen lost when the Pere Charles sank in January are hoping that today will finally give them the answers they want about their loved ones.

IRELAND’S first inland waterways Coastguard unit was launched yesterday on Lough Derg at Killaloe.

COASTAL communities had raised €17,000 by last night to help those affected by the sinking of doomed Kinsale trawler, the Honeydew II.

NAVY divers have been placed on alert for a possible return to Hook Head next Wednesday for a fresh attempt to recover the bodies of five fishermen missing since the Pere Charles sank 10 days ago.

FIVE buses a day have been arranged from Kinsale to Dunmore over the weekend for those who will join the search for the bodies of the two fishermen missing from the Honeydew II.

BAD weather conditions forced the suspension of the sea search for the doomed Honeydew II trawler off the south east coast yesterday.

DIVERS yesterday located the Pere Charles but near-zero visibility meant they were unable to see if the five crewmen were inside the stricken trawler.

The dive to recover the bodies of the five fishermen who went down with the Pere Charles trawler could be delayed for at least a week, the Coast Guard said tonight.

FEARS were growing last night for the safety of two fishermen missing since their 15-metre fishing vessel, the Maggie B, went down five miles off the Hook Peninsula in county Wexford in rough seas just before midnight on Wednesday.

Coastguards are being realistic over the continuing search for two fishermen missing since their boat sank off the Co Wexford coast last night.

The boy accused of shooting dead two classmates in the US talked of going on a shooting spree, it is claimed.