A vast red tide of algae threatening the multimillion-euro shellfish industry on the Atlantic seaboard is being compounded by a seven-year bureaucratic delay.

THE search for a teenager who went missing while swimming with friends off the Co Donegal coast was called off last night due to bad weather.

The search for a teenager who went missing while swimming with friends off the Co Donegal coast is resuming later today.

Marine Minister Pat the Cope Gallagher today officially opened a new Irish Coast Guard Station House in Mulroy in Co Donegal.

A man has been airlifted to hospital in Letterkenny after the pleasure craft he was fishing in caught fire off the Inishowen peninsula today.