Singer-turned-hero Damien Dempsey didn’t make a song and dance yesterday about the summer day he saved a swimmer’s life. The Dublin native waded into the River Slaney in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, and helped pluck a drowning man to safety.

INCISIVE, clear, concise, RTÉ journalist, Séan O’Rourke, is dogged in his pursuit of a story.

Dublin Bay should be designated as a whale sanctuary to protect the population of harbour porpoises, it was claimed today.

A brave young student Garda went into the icy waters off Dun Laoghaire pier to help rescue a drowning man, it emerged today.

ONE of Ireland’s top PR executives yesterday told the High Court of his outrage and anger that information was leaked to a number of Sunday newspapers that he was in talks with Bank of Ireland (BoI) for the post of group head of corporate communications.

A READER writes to say that in Dublin a couple of climatically-disorientated street pigeons, uka (unkindly-known-as) rats-with-wings, recently decided to roost, nest and defecate on staff and visitors above the entrance of her office building.

IT was hardly the first dawn ram-raid witnessed on the Northside, but it was one of the most surprising.

Broadcaster George Hook today revealed that he once planned to kill himself by jumping off Dun Laoghaire Pier in Dublin - but backed out at the last minute.

The Coastguard has rescued two young women who got into difficulties in the water off Dun Laoghaire’s East Pier in Co Dublin this morning.

By Noel Whelan MUCH of the media coverage since last Saturday has rattled off Diarmuid Martin’s numerous qualifications.