Sewage from the equivalent of 77,000 people in 36 towns and villages is released into the environment every day without treatment.

An air and sea search for three kayakers reported missing off the Co Wexford coast has been called off after they were found safe and well.

In every generation there is a new Frankenstein.

After 20 years family has ‘nothing left to lose’, and are no longer afraid of naming the suspect, writes Joyce Fegan.

Irish Water has warned of some water treatment plants struggling to cope because of exceptionally high demand.

Compared with the west coast, the south coast has a mere smattering of islands. From Hook Head in Co Wexford to Cape Clear in Co Cork, there are a few clusters of islands at Glandore, Cork Harbour, and Kilmore Quay, writes Dan MacCarthy. 

Dan MacCarthy talks us through the Saltee Islands, named by Viking seafarers.

Four flares were let off into the Waterford sky as a wreath was laid at sea in a tribute to the crew members of Irish Coast Guard helicopter R116.

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

The country’s seafood industry will have much to celebrate and many challenges to ponder in Galway this coming weekend when Bord Iascaigh Mhara holds its second maritime festival.

The skipper of a vessel that capsized off the Wexford coast, resulting in one fatality, did not know that the boat was overloaded with people.

Taste the Atlantic is a seafood journey that stretches south from Erris in Co Mayo to Connemara and on to Galway Bay.

Fishermen generally welcomed an overall 10% rise in the quantity of whitefish they will be able to catch next year while newer conservation methods are showing significant success in increasing fish stocks generally.

An investigation has been launched after a man in his 70s died after the boat he was on with a fishing party capsized, leaving 10 people in the sea for five hours.

Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) confirmed full ice production had resumed yesterday at three of its plants in Kilmore Quay, Howth and Dunmore East.

Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) has temporarily suspended production at ice plants at Howth, Kilmore Quay and Dunmore East due to health and safety concerns.

Government chief whip Paul Kehoe has criticised Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) for a lack of communication with fishermen on the suspension of production at three ice plants.

Cyclists are set to face fines of around €40 for dozens of existing offences under a planned new fixed charge notice scheme.

Beaches and marinas across the country are bathing in the warm waters of European approval — 86 of them have been awarded the prestigious Blue Flag status.

It’s a chilly St Patrick’s weekend in Kilkenny, and the medieval city is throbbing to the sound of uileann pipes, concertinas, tin whistles, bodhráns, and enough jigs’n’reels to whirl you to the end of time and back again.

A worker who claimed he was forced to retire from a Co Donegal-owned seafood company at age 66 has been awarded €24,000 in compensation by the Equality Tribunal.

New leaked files from Edward Snowden seem to show that UK authorities have tapped the underwater cables that carry data from Ireland to the UK and beyond.

PLANNING a weekend that keeps parents and young children interested and content can be a challenge. 

British police have seized a motor boat which they believe was to transfer 1,100kg of cocaine from the yacht Makayabella on its final leg into Britain.

Mairead McGuinness became the second Irish person to be elected vice-president of the European Parliament when she got the second highest number of votes from her fellow MEPs.

A Wexford businessman has denied kicking in the doors of a hotel and smashing a window to stop a receiver taking possession of the property.

THE devil isn’t just in the detail at Ballyfin; it’s in the big picture too. A lavish, Regency-era mansion sitting pretty in a private demesne beneath the Slieve Bloom Mountains, this is not only one of the most extravagant five-star hotels in the country, but one of its most exquisitely restored country estates.

Storms that ravaged Ireland’s coast at the start of the year have cost several beaches their coveted Blue Flag award.

Should a ferry ever be engulfed in flames off the Irish coastline with a threat to the lives of dozens of passengers and crew, those who may be involved in the emergency response have a flavour of what to expect following a major training exercise yesterday.

Ristorante Rinuccini,

The deaths at sea of nine Wexford lifeboatmen a century ago are commemorated by a concert this week says Jo Kerrigan

The search for a lobster fisherman, missing off the south east coast has been stood down for the night.

A search is underway off the south Wexford coast this afternoon for a lobster fisherman.

Talks are to get underway in Co Wexford this afternoon in an attempt to resolve a fishing dispute that has seen 120 people without work in Kilmore Quay.

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The Army Bomb Disposal team made safe a six inch coastal artillery shell at Kilmore Quay in Wexford this evening.

Daniel Maclise, R.A., The Wrestling Scene in 'As You Like It' signed and dated 'D MACLISE 1854'. Image courtesy Christie's.

The controversial practice of dumping prized fish overboard because of EU quotas will be phased out from 2015, the Marine Minister has confirmed.

Marine Minister Simon Coveney has announced that the controversial practice of dumping valuable fish overboard because of EU quotas will be phased out from 2015.

Kilmore Quay fishing port was a hive of activity yesterday morning as a local fisherman gave away €10,000 worth of free monkfish in a protest over EU quotas.

Yesterday’s protest by trawlerman Seamus O’Flaherty in Kilmore Quay, where he gave away monkfish — around €28.50 per kg from retailers yesterday — caught outside of quota limits rather than dump it at sea again highlights utterly wasteful if not immoral obligations faced by fishermen in a world where around one billion people go hungry every day.

Fisheries officers say they found a substantial quantity of fish on board a vessel at Kilmore Quay which had been logged as having been discarded.