Damages of €96,000 each has been awarded by the High Court to two directors of a waterbus service operating in Donegal Bay after finding that they were defamed in articles in a local newspaper.

A father-of-three is the latest diver to lose his life after getting into difficulty off the coast of Donegal.

Met Éireann is expected to issue a red alert as gale force winds of up to 130km/h, high tides, rain, sleet, hail, and thunder hit the country this weekend.

CONFRONTED by a 20-foot wave, I’d do the honourable thing.

A global anti-fish farming activist on a tour of the west coast has called for details of chemical anti-parasite treatments used in Irish waters to be made available.

The biggest waves so far this winter could hit our coastline this weekend, sending surfers into a frenzy of excitement.

A vast red tide of algae threatening the multimillion-euro shellfish industry on the Atlantic seaboard is being compounded by a seven-year bureaucratic delay.

IRELAND will feel the effects of the remains of Hurricane Katia from tomorrow night — as forecasters warned of 160km/h winds causing building damage, coastal flooding, uprooted trees and transport chaos.

Get ready for some high octane thrills and spills as Bundoran, Co. Donegal gets set to host Eurosurf Bundoran - the 2011 European Surfing Championships.

People are being warned to be wary of the unusually large number of bottlenose dolphins which have taken up residence off the coast of Co Donegal.

LIKE a family of returned Yanks treading homeward to the Blaskets, the sight of a group of rare visitors heading towards the shores of Dingle Bay has caused great excitement among locals on Ireland’s western-most point.

NEXT Sunday, a large family from the isolated Donegal peninsula of St John’s Point will gather for Mass to pray for the souls of Francis Byrne and his son Jimmy.

IRISH fish farmers have been hit by an outbreak of ostreid herpes virus in oysters.

Marine investigators have called for small fishing boats to carry rocket distress flares after a father and son perished at sea, it was revealed today.

A huge hike in the number of builders and fishermen killed on the job was today blamed for an overall jump in workplace deaths.

Border county and North/South cross community projects are to receive funding of €1.16m from the International Fund for Ireland following its September Board Meeting held in Sligo today.

AARON O’CALLAGHAN, winner of this year’s Irish Examiner Junior Sports Star award for golf, is one of a number of entries for the British Amateur Championship beginning at St Andrews on Monday.

THE coast guard remained on standby for a major pollution incident last night, as damage to a tanker carrying 55,000 tonnes of oil off the north-west coast was assessed.