How Shackleton and his crew of Irish, English, and Scots worked together was a million miles away from the events taking place at the same time in Dublin 1916, writes Patrick G O’Shea of the University of Maryland

Four Irish people were rescued from their stricken Antarctic Ocean cruise ship today after the vessel struck an iceberg.

There are reports that four Irish people are among the 100 passengers that had to be rescued from a stricken cruise liner in the Antarctic Ocean today.

Eight Israelis and Palestinians headed south from Chile today on an expedition to climb an unnamed, unconquered Antarctic mountain, vowing to cooperate under difficult, dangerous conditions.

A twin-engined propeller plane has carried a sick American doctor out of Antarctica.