THREE separate investigations have begun into what appears to have been a freak accident that claimed the life of a three-year-old boy at Drogheda Port yesterday.

PLANS to develop a €226m container terminal in Cork Harbour will not damage its sailing pursuits or property prices, an oral hearing was told yesterday.

“HE WAS a family man first and a fisherman second; he loved his family.”

A cruise ship carrying more than seven hundred people is being towed into the British port of Southampton after a fire.

Fishing boats which were blockading Rosslare and Waterford ports this morning are now moving away.