Sounds detected by probes deep in the South Atlantic did not come from an Argentine submarine that has been lost for five days, the country's navy said, dashing newfound hope among relatives of the 44 sailors aboard.

Back at home again, we are enjoying west Cork as much as we have ever enjoyed anywhere, probably more so because, although we regularly roam, it is here that we have settled, writes Damien Enright.

The family of an Irish Antarctic hero is marking his bravery by following in his footsteps, 100 years on.

On its centenary, Ryle Dwyer looks at an extraordinary rescue in the South Atlantic involving two Irishmen 

The first Irishman to set foot in explorer Ernest Shackleton’s cabin saw a dream come true of watching it arrive in Ireland to become a permanent exhibition.

Over the weekend Jimmy Barry-Murphy made the headlines, stepping down as Cork senior hurling manager. It was his second time in the limelight in less than a week, as he was made a member of the GAA Hall of Fame a few days ago.

A Book of Voyages

INCARCERATION is said to leave you with a feeling of helplessness and vulnerability. But the truth of life for a political prisoner, even for one on a hunger strike, is the opposite.

A 7.8 magnitude quake has struck a remote region of the South Atlantic.

Britain will not invite the Argentinian president Cristina Fernandez to Margaret Thatcher’s funeral next week in a snub likely to deepen a long-running diplomatic dispute over the Falkland Islands.

Global leaders have expressed praise and admiration for Margaret Thatcher as news spread of her death.

Argentina and Britain have had another bitter clash at the United Nations over the Falkland Islands.

Former Taoiseach Charles Haughey’s attempts to put pressure on the British government during the Falklands War backfired and threatened relations between the two countries at the highest level, Northern Ireland Office (NIO) files from 1982 claimed.

Prime Minister David Cameron today confronted Argentina’s president over the Falklands, as the two met on the margins of the G20 summit in Mexico.

Argentina's president is pressing her country's claim to the Falkland Islands with a high-profile appearance today before a little-known UN committee on the 30th anniversary of Britain's ousting of an Argentinian invasion force.

The Falkland Islands are to hold a referendum on their “political status” - hoping to bring an end to the continuing dispute with Argentina over the islands’ sovereignty, their government said today.

British defence secretary Philip Hammond rejected claims that Britain would be unable to defend the Falklands against an Argentinian assault as both countries marked the 30-year anniversary of the war in the South Atlantic.

Argentinian president Cristina Fernandez’s campaign to force Britain to hand over the Falkland Islands may have reached its high point with the 30th anniversary of her country’s failed occupation of the remote South Atlantic archipelago.

Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman is meeting UN chief Ban Ki-moon to discuss his country’s concerns over Britain’s “militarisation” of the seas around the disputed Falkland Islands.

Argentina’s president accused Britain of “militarising the South Atlantic” and said she would complain to the UN, as tension rises ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Falklands war.

Argentina is to make a formal complaint to the United Nations Security Council after accusing Britain of “militarising” their long dispute over the Falkland Islands.

Argentina has hit out at the decision to send England's Prince William to serve as an RAF helicopter pilot in the Falklands saying he will wear “the uniform of a conquistador”.

Japan and other pro-whaling nations have walked out of a meeting of the International Whaling Commission to protest at a proposal for a whale sanctuary in the South Atlantic.

Banks helped lift London's leading index sharply higher today after Lloyds Banking Group boss Antonio Horta-Osorio received backing for his plans to overhaul the taxpayer-controlled bank.

HUMPBACK whales have a mystifying navigational skill that cannot be explained by known theories, a study has found.

EVER have that nightmare where you’re rowing the Indian Ocean in a 23ft-long boat, surrounded by sharks, the sun is melting the skin on your back, you’re eating out of tins, going to the toilet in a bucket... and you’re naked? No, me neither. But meet the Irishman who plans on living that dream for 150 nights.

Margaret Thatcher pleaded with Charles Haughey to help her crush the Argentinians at the outbreak of the Falklands War, it was revealed today.

An enormous patch of waste plastic debris covering thousands of square miles has formed in the Atlantic, researchers said today.

Tensions between the UK and Argentina mounted today as a British oil rig began drilling off the Falkland Islands.

Argentina staked a claim to a vast area of seabed stretching from South America to the Antarctic in its latest bid for control of the South Atlantic in a historic dispute with the United Kingdom.

More than 120 passengers and crew had to be rescued today from a cruise ship that hit rocks off Antarctica.

Donal Hickey says the tide is washing up rare fish

A train slammed into a bus at a rural Argentine rail crossing early today, killing 18 people and leaving at least 47 others injured, authorities said.

There are reports that four Irish people are among the 100 passengers that had to be rescued from a stricken cruise liner in the Antarctic Ocean today.

Britain is one of 12 countries likely to miss a 2009 deadline to clear all land mines from its territory, campaigners said today.

TWENTY-FIVE years after hostilities ceased, Argentina is opening a new front in the Falklands War.

READERS of the Examiner will have seen Áilín Quinlan’s report of fin whales off the Cork coast.

Argentina’s coastguard detained a Falkand Islands-registered fishing vessel suspected of operating illegally in Argentina’s so-called “economic exclusion zone” in the South Atlantic.

Hundreds of people could be charged with torture, disappearances and kidnapping babies during Argentina’s “dirty war” after the Supreme Court struck down amnesties passed in the 1980s.

British sailor Ellen MacArthur had edged back to one day seven hours ahead of Francis Joyon's round-the-world record pace yesterday but was facing a threatening passage through the Doldrums from today.

The Royal Mail mistakenly sent Christmas post bound for a south Atlantic British colony to Paraguay and the Caribbean, it emerged tonight.

A spiraling storm lashed the coast of southern Brazil, killing two people, injuring at least 35 others and damaging thousands of homes, civil defence officials said today.