The Government will not accept delivery of a new €50 million-plus navy ship until problems with its propulsion system have been fixed.

A Facebook campaign featuring a video of life in the naval service may have been one of the reasons so many people applied for recruit vacancies.

The Naval Service has announced it wants to recruit 80 personnel into the force.

The tallest building in Wales has been cordoned off by police due to an “ongoing incident”.

At 66 and with his sights firmly trained on a top 10 finish in this week’s British Seniors Open at Royal Porthcawl, Cork’s Denis O’Sullivan is focused.

The Irish Sea is one of the most nuclear polluted, because of the number of nuclear power stations and facilities on its English, Welsh and Scottish coastlines, and because its partial enclosure leads to a build-up of pollutants.

An Taisce has launched a legal challenge to a nuclear plant power plant being built on the Bristol Channel in the UK.

HOUSE sparrows have lived with us since the dawn of civilisation.

A car which went missing in the sea after it was parked on a slipway has been recovered.

Military sightings of UFOs, an "alien abduction" in London and an unidentified aircraft shadowing a Lancaster bomber feature among thousands of close-encounter documents released by the British National Archives today.

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Two Irish companies will be involved in the development of over 16GW of offshore wind in the next round of development in UK waters.

Officials at Taunton have announced an 8am precautionary inspection due an adverse weather forecast.

A STORM rushing in from the Atlantic lashed Wales and southern England yesterday as high winds and tides brought the risk of coastal flooding.

MIKO DE BEAUCHENE gave his trainer Robert Alner the best possible compensation for a Christmas spent in hospital as he grabbed the Coral Welsh National in the final strides.

WE quote him all the time but many people don’t seem to realise that Neil Armstrong went all the way to the moon only to fluff his lines.

PLANS by Munster supporters to travel serenely to Cardiff for this weekend’s Heineken Cup Final were blown off course yesterday by gales over the Irish Sea.

Catherine Zeta Jones has reportedly infuriated residents near her home town of Swansea by extending plans for a large mansion.

People on the tiny island of Lundy are being asked to bathe together because of a water shortage, it emerged today.

Cornwall has been shaken by an earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale.