Selfie sticks, a breathalyser test and a copy of the Eighth Amendment are among the items that would help the people of the future understand today’s society, writes Clodagh Finn.

Mitchelstown was unusually quiet on the August Bank Holiday weekend 10 years ago, as the town’s annual summer festival took an enforced hiatus amid an uncertain future.

Three teenagers were quizzed yesterday after a “bizarre” joyriding spree on the seas involving a stolen luxury yacht.

Congrats to the planners in securing permission for the construction of the ‘urban beach’ in Dun Laoghaire harbour, which will include a full bar, dressing rooms, and toilets. 

The Transport Minster Paschal Donohoe has said he shares the disappointment of Dun Laoghaire after Stena Line ended ferry services at the South Dublin port.

It is been confirmed that Stena Line will no longer operate its Dún Laoghaire to Holyhead route.

The naval patrol boat LÉ Aoife is to be decommissioned this month and sold off, through public auction, by the end of February.

After the recent cancellation of Stena Line's Dún Laoghaire to Holyhead service over the Christmas period, it is now thought that the ferry operator could be considering completely pulling out of the harbour.

A man has been airlifted to hospital after a yacht overturned during a race in Dun Laoghaire harbour in Dublin.

I read the article When a Town Shuts up Shop.

I WATCHED some of the opening ceremony of the Eucharistic Congress on Sunday afternoon.

The launch of a major emergency plan when a handful of boats capsized during a junior regatta race was over the top, a report claimed today.

Stena Line ferry workers today became the latest to threaten strike action over planned cutbacks and redundancies in the transport sector.

A drug addict who repeatedly broke into two Dún Laoghaire yacht clubs and stole 21 people’s belongings as well as a car and €600 in cash has been sentenced to two years in prison.

A Welsh-Irish church service is to mark the 90th anniversary of the biggest ever disaster on the Irish Sea.

THE death has occurred of the maritime historian and anti-nuclear activist John de Courcy Ireland following a long illness. He was 94 years old.

A French yachtsman has succeeded in his attempt to break the round-Ireland sailing record.

The Dun Laoghaire lifeboat rescued six people whose vessel suffered engine failure during rough weather off the east coast last night.

As forecasts continue to indicate strong winds for the Irish Sea, the Race Committee for the BMW Round Ireland Race will continue to monitor Meteorological data overnight pending a decision whether to start the 704-mile race on time today from Wicklow Sailing Club.

Esat BT has announced that the Conrad Hotel in Dublin has become the latest service provider to sign-up to its public wireless local area network (WLAN) technology, BT Openzone.

Staff on board the morning Stena Sealink passenger ferry have extinguished a fire which broke out in the engine room in the early hours of this morning.