A Dutch businessman has picked up decommissioned Naval Service ship LÉ Aisling for the bargain basement price of €110,000.

As the morning sunshine slides across a memorial tomorrow morning in West Cork, a shadow on a sundial will mark the moment a jumbo jet was blasted out off the sky off the south-west coast.

An Irish registered fishing vessel has been detained approximately 100 nautical miles off the Kerry coast.

GARDAÍ are treating as a tragic accident the death of a 34-year-old member of the Irish Navy who fell into the sea at Schull, West Cork, in the early hours of yesterday morning.

Navy divers are due to carry out a search of the seabed off the west coast today following the discovery of several kilos of cannabis in the area.