Over 200 bags of rubbish have been collected from Portmarnock beach in Dublin this morning following the good weather period yesterday.

A call for volunteers to join Ireland’s largest coastal clean-up and ensure Ireland’s beaches are in ship shape has been made as part of An Taisce’s Clean Coasts programme.

Dublin's coastguard was called for an unusual request when a baby porpoise got stranded on Portmarnock beach yesterday.

AN emergency mobile phone call saved a woman from disaster in Cork harbour yesterday when she became trapped in mud on a rising tide.

MUD, mud glorious mud, there’s nothing quite like it for cooling the blood, but two people who got bogged down in separate incidents at the weekend might disagree.

A TOP gang boss suspected of carrying out a spate of lucrative robberies of cash transit vans and ATMs hired a helicopter to fly him to his wedding in north Dublin, it emerged yesterday.