A boat designed and built in east Cork is now fully fitted and ready for testing prior to attempting a new world record transatlantic crossing next summer.

"Strategic marine activity zones" may be designated in coastal and offshore waters as part of the Government's new approach to marine planning.

From a French corvette in 1798, a very important visitor alighted to Co Donegal’s Rutland Island.

The RNLI have rescued a group of divers in Donegal.

Rotten by name but certainly not by nature.

The European Commission has detected “significant weaknesses” in how Ireland controls fish catches within EU waters, highlighting issues around weighing and an “ineffective sanctioning system for offences”.

An EU study says inspection authorities in 15 EU states, including Ireland, are failing to manage engine power as a way of controlling fishing effort.

A rare chance to own not one but TWO lighthouse keeper's cottages on your own stunning island off Co Donegal has come up.

One of Jim McGuinness’s first tasks when he finally landed the role of Donegal senior manager heading into the Baltic winter of 2010 was to cobble together a backroom team.

Donegal All-Star Ryan McHugh has admitted that last year’s championship campaign turned decisively against them once Paddy McBrearty suffered a season-ending injury.

The threat of bacterial epidemics is something that threatens all countries, island or not.

Investment in infrastructure is bearing fruit in the form of rural regeneration, jobs growth, house building, and capital projects, to ensure balanced regional development, says Pascal Donohoe.

King of the Claddagh Michael Lynskey and his community took to the Galway waterside at the weekend to welcome home a workboat which plied the Atlantic during two world wars.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 2.4 occurred in Donegal last night shortly before midnight.

Latest:A fisherman whose body was recovered from the shoreline at Killybegs in Co Donegal today was originally from Co Cork.

Ireland may face penalties in light of damning EU audit report.

In volume two of his biography of Éamon de Valera, covering 1932-1975, the RTÉ journalist David McCullough paints a complex picture, writes Ryle Dwyer.

Next Tuesday marks the origins of an American conspiracy to depict Éamon de Valera and his government as morally indifferent to the outcome of the Second World War. Historian and author Ryle Dwyer argues that false claims about neutrality have produced possibly the greatest distortion of Irish history since independence.

Celebrity photographer Jenny McCarthy talks with Rita de Brún about life, her love for Martin King, and some of the celebrity weddings she has photographed.

Fishing groups have given a broad welcome to the annual deal struck by the EU on fish quotas worth €266m for next year.

What use is a utility, if not as a scapegoat? Except that the scapegoat is now so starved it can’t carry the load, writes Victoria White.

Several homes and businesses in Killybegs in Co. Donegal have flooded after a river there burst its banks.

A fish producers’ organisation has warned of a policy of apartheid in the fishing industry which affects the bulk of the fleet.

The son of one of the three women killed in last Friday’s horrific accident in Co Louth has said a tearful farewell to the tragic friends.

A rural community has been plunged into mourning after three women died in a horror three-vehicle road traffic smash as they travelled home from a holiday.

A rural community has been plunged into mourning after three women died in a horror three-vehicle road traffic smash as they travelled home from a holiday.

Renewed sonar searches and trawling has begun around the crash site of the Irish Coast Guard helicopter that went down in the Atlantic.

The search for the remaining two crew members of Irish Coast Guard helicopter R116 will resume today after bad weather hampered efforts over the weekend.

Update 7.33am: Two men who drowned on a weekend fishing trip have been named as friends originally from Lithuania.

Clodagh Finn meets the irrepressible ‘Chef Adrian’ who is on a mission to steer the country away from a costly dependence on fast food by showing us how to cook healthier, cheaper alternatives.

As we know only too well, Seamus Coleman won’t be on the pitch in the Aviva on Sunday but if his replacement Cyrus Christie and the rest of the Irish players can channel some of the spirit Captain Coleman’s men showed on a famous night in Lille last summer, Austria in the World Cup qualifiers will find themselves up against what Italy were forced to confront in the finals of the European Championships.

Seamus Coleman will be welcomed back into the Irish fold for the game against Austria in Dublin next month.

A fisherman has been banned from setting foot in West Cork by a judge following two separate convictions — even if the boat he is working on docks along the coast, writes Noel Baker.

A fisherman has been banned from setting foot in West Cork by a judge following two separate convictions — even if the boat he is working on docks along the coast.

Irish ports will have their busiest ever cruise ship season in 2017 with over 300 vessels scheduled to visit ports and harbours around the country, writes John Daly.

On the day Ireland captain Seamus Coleman was in Liverpool breaking his silence about his injury nightmare, former skipper Robbie Keane was in Dublin offering words of advice to the Donegal man as he begins the long road to recovery at Everton.

92% of Irish people will not pay anything for the water they use and nobody will get a bill, writes Victoria White

Up to 1,000 people will this weekend mobilise in an air, sea, and land search for missing R116 helicopter crew members Paul Ormsby and Ciarán Smith.

They may rail against the Donegal jokes, but Little Hours are proud to be spoken of as their home county’s next big thing in the music world, writes Ed Power.

Europe's environmental watchdogs are taking Ireland to court over the pumping of raw sewage into rivers and the sea.

Donegal cousins Declan Boyle and Brian Boyle (Ford Fiesta WRC) blitzed the opposition in the Martin Howley Donegal Harvest Rally in Killybegs, the final round of the Triton Showers National Rally Championship.