Carers yesterday pleaded with the Government to have a change of heart over cutting essential supports that enable them to care for their loved ones.

A post mortem will be carried out this morning on the body of a man killed in an industrial accident in Co. Wexford yesterday.

Up to 11 dead seals, some decapitated, have washed up on the south-east coast in recent days amid warnings that fishermen may be taking the law “into their own hands”.

The Irish Seal Sanctuary has said it is concerned over a cluster of seal deaths reported in counties Wexford and Waterford over the past few days.

Dáithí O Sé, Maura Derrane, Norah Casey and Bláithnaid Ní Chofaigh present the new daytime series Today live from Cork every weekday.

Marie Therese Wall has given herself a task: to spend 12 months sourcing all her purchases within a 16-mile radius

Two men have died following separate road crashes in Counties Longford and Wexford.

A man has died in a road crash in Co Wexford.

TWO of Ireland’s most talented drivers, Waterford’s, Craig Breen and Fermanagh’s, Alastair Fisher compete in the WRC Academy series that begins this weekend alongside Rally Portugal, the third round of the World Rally championship.

The family of a fisherman missing off the south-east coast face another agonising night after the search operation had to be suspended.

An air and sea search resumed today for a fisherman missing off the south east coast after his boat overturned.

A LIFELONG fisherman who celebrated his 64th birthday on December 30 is feared drowned after the small boat he was fishing on sank off the south-east coast at Duncannon, Co Wexford, yesterday morning.

Navy divers are due to join air and sea teams tomorrow in the search for a fisherman feared drowned off the south east coast after his boat sank.

THREE years ago we bought a Martello tower, because we’re nuts.

A major sea rescue was under way today for a small boat with two men on board.

TWO men suspected of stealing a fishing boat from the harbour at Dunmore East in the early hours of yesterday morning were, reportedly, trying to make their way into Waterford city before their plan was scuppered when the craft got into difficulty.

Gardaí are preparing a file for the DPP following a sea rescue off the coast of Co Waterford early this morning.

Two men in their 20s have been rescued off the Waterford coast after their fishing vessel got into difficulty early this morning.

The search for a teenager who fell into the River Suir in Waterford over the weekend is due to resume at first light this morning.

A man and a woman are being questioned by gardaí tonight over the alleged forging of a will involving farmland worth tens of millions of euro.

THE moment of truth is approaching in the North. On past performance one might be hard pressed to believe Ian Paisley is finally going to say ‘yes’.

FISHERMEN working the Irish coast face a deadly balancing act between making a living from the sea and battling some of the most treacherous weather conditions in northern Europe.

FISHERMEN in Waterford last night told of their desperate attempts to save the life of their friend after he slipped and fell from their boat late on Wednesday night.

A search was continuing tonight off the Co Wexford coast for a fishing boat that failed to return to port.

The Pisces fishing tragedy in which five people died must never happen again, the Marine Minister vowed today.

The leniency of a fine for a fisherman whose boat sank with the loss of five lives has shocked local people, a TD said today.

A fisherman whose boat sank with the loss of five lives was tonight found not guilty of manslaughter.

HOUSEHOLDERS face further power cuts during peak demand periods as the ESB battles to alleviate pressure on its national grid system.

Had five people been killed in a road traffic accident, including three generations of the same family, there would be no question that the Director of Public Prosecutions would instigate an investigation to establish any basis of culpability.

FOUR men and a teenage boy went out last July with five other friends for a day's sea fishing.

THE owner of a trawler which sank off the coast of Co Wexford last year could face criminal prosecution after the official report into the accident found the boat was “unseaworthy, overloaded and unstable”.

The investigation into the sinking of the Pisces off the coast of Co Wexford last year has found that the trawler sank because it was not seaworthy, overloaded and unstable.

A COMPREHENSIVE report into a sea tragedy that claimed five lives has been further delayed.

LIVES were lost aboard an inshore pleasure fishing boat off Wexford last summer due to the absence of an inflatable life raft and a lack of life jackets, a draft marine report reveals.

The inquest into the deaths of five people in a fishing accident off the coast of Co Wexford in July has returned verdicts of death by drowning.

ALL passenger boats must have a licence from January 1, Marine Minister Dermot Ahern announced yesterday.

The Government today advanced a deadline for the introduction of new regulations to control the use of small passenger boats.

A fisherman missing for two days off the Kerry coast may have fallen overboard and drowned as he was not wearing a lifejacket, rescuers said today.

Thousands of people have turned out in the Co Wexford town of New Ross for the funerals of three members of the same family who died when their fishing vessel sank of Fethard-on-Sea last Sunday.

The funerals of four people who died in Sunday morning’s boating tragedy off the Co Wexford coast are due to take place in New Ross today.

OLIVER MURPHY was supposed to accompany his father, Martin, on last Sunday's ill-fated trip aboard the Pisces fishing boat that sank off the Wexford coast, but the vessel could only take nine passengers so he stayed ashore.

One of the five people who died in a boating tragedy off the Co Wexford coast on Sunday is due to be buried later this morning.