I welcome the regular sized cruise ships coming in to Dún Laoghaire harbour.

Just astounding!

Last night amateur photographer Graham Harkness was taking photographs of the beautiful night sky over Dalkey, Dublin - when he managed to capture the shot professional astronomers can only dream of.

THERE’S good news on the wildlife front; BirdWatch Ireland has announced that terns nested very successfully on the east coast this summer. The numbers breeding ‘are at an all-time high’, says tern expert Dr Steve Newton.

There are five species of tern here, while Rockabill Island represent 80% of the roseate tern’s European numbers. It’s a conservation success story, says Dan MacCarthy

DUBLIN is crawling out from the collapsed dreams of the Celtic Tiger, fizzing with energy and new openings, and preferring ideas to greed, imagination to rampant development.

A SON-IN-LAW of mine, living in the UK, has recently made a hobby of knapping.

The search for a young woman continued for a second day yesterday, after personal items were discovered at the Cliffs of Moher.

The man who was pulled from the sea in Dublin Bay this afternoon has passed away.

A swimmer is fighting for his life after he was pulled from Dublin Bay today.

Dublin City Council will have to await the outcome of a major legal challenge to its proposed €270m Ringsend scheme to pipe the waste products of about 1.8 million people into the heart of Dublin Bay.

Providence Resources has scrapped immediate plans to drill off Dublin’s coast.

An energy company planning to test drill for oil about six miles from some of Ireland’s most sought after real estate has been forced to postpone explorations.

Providence Resources plans to commence drilling next year at its Rathlin Basin assets, off the Co Antrim coast, with the company saying its prospects there could contain up to 530 million barrels of oil.

An Taisce have launched a High Court challenge aimed at overturning the Government's decision to award a foreshore licence to an oil and natural gas exploration firm for the Dalkey Island prospect in Dublin Bay.

Providence Resources has been awarded a foreshore licence for its Dalkey Island prospect — a move which gives the company the green light to drill off the Dublin coast early next year.

A colony of young Irish seabirds has been wiped out after rats swam into the middle of Dublin Port, climbed wooden poles, and devoured them.

Providence Resources could sell 40% of its shareholding in the Barryroe oil and gas field, off the Cork coast, later this year.

Two divers, a man and a woman, have been rescued in Dublin Bay after they were swept miles away from their dive site by the incoming tide.

Ireland is set to become a major focus of large international companies looking for oil, if the initial test flows from Providence Resources appraisal oil well — 50km off the Cork coast — prove to be commercial.

EXPLORATION firm, Providence Resources has increased its equity stake in the Barryroe well, off the Cork coast in the Celtic Sea, to 80%.

PROVIDENCE Resour-ces chief executive Tony O’Reilly Jnr has said that “the time has come” for Ireland’s hydrocarbon potential to be realised.

INTERNATIONAL stock markets spiralled downwards yesterday, on the back of a less-than-favourably received fresh stimulus package put forward by US economic policymakers and dire warnings from the World Bank.

PROVIDENCE Resources is likely to sell further equity stakes in its Irish-based assets, as it progresses with its two-year €350 million drilling programme off the country’s coastline.

LIMERICK-BASED exploration company Circle Oil’s Moroccan and Egyptian assets could hold up to 83% and 65% more oil reserves than initially anticipated.

OIL and gas exploration company Providence Resources has formally committed to drilling next year at its high-profile Spanish Point/Main Porcupine Basin assets off the west coast of Ireland.

SO, at long last, the rogue Gulf of Mexico oil-well has been capped.

Dublin: Oil and gas company Providence Resources Plc has said its Kish Bank Basin offshore Ireland might be suitable for gas storage and carbon sequestration.

An Irish oil and gas company have announced its to begin drilling for oil off the coast of Dublin.

OIL deposits just 10 kilometres off the coast of Dublin have the potential to provide our entire oil needs for up to 12 years, according to a survey by Irish exploration company Providence Resources.

Four divers have been rescued in Dublin Bay after strong tides swept them away from their boat.

Two canoeists were rescued off Dalkey Island in Dublin today by the Dun Laoghaire Inshore Lifeboat.

A 13-year-old child is recovering in hospital this morning after he fell from a Martello Tower on Dalkey Island late last night.