A multinational team of scientists led by Ireland’s Marine Institute have uncovered mountains higher than Carrauntoohil on the Atlantic seabed.

The first national celebration of the seas around Ireland and an opportunity to share our seafaring heritage, has been launched by the Government.

Cork will host the country’s first maritime festival, with industry workshops and a family fun day, which Minister for the Marine Simon Coveney hopes will one day become an event to rival the National Ploughing Championships.

A full-scale war under way between the Department of Agriculture and the Inland Fisheries Ireland is likely to determine the fate of Europe’s biggest fish farm planned for Galway Bay.

Irish and Canadian scientists will conduct fisheries research onboard Irish national research vessel RV Celtic Explorer, which has set sail from Galway bound for the Labrador and Newfoundland Seas.

THEY are creatures from the abyss described as the closest things to extra-terrestrial life which can be found on this planet.

IRELAND is neatly placed to become a research centre into the effects of climate change on the oceans and marine life and the knock-on consequences for the fishing industry.

A RESEARCH project is expected to provide data that will enable the niche Irish seaweed industry to double annual output to €20 million by 2013.

THE Government must grasp the opportunity to create 2,000 jobs in fish and shellfish farming, the Irish Farmers Association has declared.

Donal Hickey looks at the reasons for our wet summer.

Scientists claim Ireland will soon have a major role in studying the effects of global warming, under a new initiative.

THE lessons learnt from the Celtic Tiger are to be put to use in an ambitious €365 million research project to revolutionise the maritime economy.

SCIENTISTS from the National University of Ireland, Galway, are leading one of the world’s largest studies into how microscopic marine plants might affect the earth’s climate, it emerged yesterday.

Ireland could become a world leader in harnessing energy from the sea securing its power supply in the process, it was claimed today.

WAVE energy could power thousands of homes via the national grid by 2020, it was claimed yesterday.

Wave energy could power thousands of homes via the national grid by 2020, it was claimed today.

PREVIOUS generations ate a lot of shellfish - they overfished stocks almost to extinction, a process aided by pollution.

The cyclist who died in a fatal road collision at North Wall Quay, Dublin, has been named by gardaí.

A FATAL accident yesterday evening on a construction site, the third this week, has rocked the industry.

IRELAND is set to become one of the world's leading players in ocean research with the opening of a €30 million marine centre.

On July 5, 1999, Murphy was off from work in Clifden, Co Galway, with injured ribs for which he received an anti-inflammatory injection and prescription painkillers, when he decided to visit the island.