Ship ahoy! Navy top brass have confirmed that key personnel will shortly be sent to Devon to familiarise themselves with technology onboard their newest vessel before taking her on sea trials later this month.

A Wicklow house with links to the first ‘world wide web’ — a trans-ocean cable — is for sale on 186 acres, for €3m.

GARDAÍ have said that no arrests were made after machetes, slash-hooks and hatchets were recovered following a riotous incident at a wedding reception in an up-market Co Wicklow hotel.

FOUR Irishmen who answered the call of the sea and earned fame abroad were celebrated on home ground yesterday.