The Naval Service yesterday pointed to an increasing number of third-level graduates entering the force as ordinary recruits.

Service medals will be awarded to Irish Naval Service personnel who served on the historic humanitarian missions in the Mediterranean last year.

The Irish Naval Service set sail yesterday to help launch one of the country’s top international regattas.

The head of the Naval Service is supporting a call that personnel working on humanitarian rescue missions in the Mediterranean be given a higher overseas duty allowance.

The crew of LÉ Niamh will return home on Friday, October 2, but it is still unknown if the Government will send a replacement ship out to the Mediterranean Sea to aid the EU-led operation to save migrants attempting to make the crossing from North Africa into Europe.

Naval Service history was made yesterday as LÉ Éithne and LÉ Niamh saluted each other in the Mediterranean, with the former heading home and the latter on her way to rescue migrants trying to get from North Africa to Europe.

The Naval Service is getting a new satellite communications system which will be operated by Irish companies.

The Naval Service’s most senior officer says his personnel are ready and willing to create history by joining anti-piracy operations off the Horn of Africa.

The force is turning to smart technology and recruiting new personnel to help patrol our territorial waters, writes Sean O’Riordan

New recruits at their passing out parade must realise they are entering the Irish Naval Service at probably the most exciting time in its history.

The Flag Officer Commanding the Naval Service, Commodore Hugh Tully, yesterday took the salute at the passing out parade of 36 recruits.

Two men who live in Carrigaline have received notable appointments in the Naval Service, one as its boss and the other as captain of its newest vessel, LÉ Samuel Beckett, when it arrives in the spring.

A relative of one of the world’s greatest explorers believes there’s no reason why the Irish navy cannot, at some stage in the future, mount an expedition to the Antarctic.

GARDAI in Galway are trying to establish the identity of a body recovered from the city’s docks yesterday.

Final preparations are being made before the navy's newest vessel, the LE Niamh, sets sail for Asia.

Naval Service divers have resumed their search today for the bodies of six Spanish sailors who drowned when their vessel sank off the west coast last autumn.

The Navy will mark the anniversary today of the sinking of an Argentine merchant ship in Irish waters more than 80 years ago.