A crew had to jump aboard an unmanned runaway speedboat heading for a busy pier, in what was one of four dramatic rescues Baltimore RNLI performed in just 24 hours.

A sheep which was stranded for two days on a cliff ledge on the rugged West Cork coast has been given a new fleece of life after a daring rescue by crew from one of the country’s busiest lifeboat stations.

A LIFEBOAT crewman had to wade through 80 feet of thick deep mud to rescue a family whose yacht got stuck on a mud-bank at the weekend.

THE general consensus among Leaving Certificate students at Scoil Árd Rís in Limerick city was that yesterday’s higher-level maths Paper II was much harder than the first paper.