Barely one day into the Round Ireland race and Ian Hickey’s Cavatina from the Royal Cork Yacht Club was on form and aiming for a third title in this 704-mile race.

ANNE Doyle is guest host for the Lighthouse Keepers’ Global Gathering, a three-day programme of lectures, fireworks and music, which kicks off today at Hook Lighthouse in Co Wexford. The former RTÉ newsreader has been enchanted with lighthouses since childhood.

Dáithí O Sé, Maura Derrane, Norah Casey and Bláithnaid Ní Chofaigh present the new daytime series Today live from Cork every weekday.

A company based in Buttevant, Co Cork, is managing the development of a €500m tidal energy project off south-west Scotland.

The biennial Round Ireland Race got off to a brisk start yesterday afternoon before a crowd of more than a 1,000 spectators gathered at Wicklow Sailing Club.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will next month visit the Co Clare lighthouse where his grandfather was keeper in the 1920s and 30s.

IT WAS supposed to be a night of celebration for Fine Gael, and Enda Kenny insisted that was exactly what it would be.

A Belgian-registered fishing vessel has been detained by the Naval vessel, the LE Ciara, off the Wexford coast.

WHILE Thursday’s accident was the first to involve a commercial aircraft at an Irish state airport, in 1964 four people did die in a private plane crash just 300 yards from Cork Airport’s runway.

A light aircraft pilot rescued after ocean rowers watched him safely ditch his new plane in the Irish Sea was forced down by engine failure.

Charity rowers who videoed a dramatic crash landing in the Irish Sea tonight spoke of their amazement at seeing the pilot clamber from the wreckage.

A pilot airlifted to safety after his two-man aircraft crashed into the Irish Sea was named in reports today as John O’Shaughnessy.

A pilot was airlifted to safety tonight after his two-man aircraft crashed off the Wexford coast.

THE pilot of the helicopter which winched two fishermen to safety seconds before their trawler sank said their quick-thinking and safety equipment saved their lives.

Efforts to locate the wreck of the Honeydew II are continuing amid adverse conditions off the coast of Co Waterford today.

IRELAND could have witnessed its first major international terrorist incident if the Pan-Am flight which crashed over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988 had left London’s Heathrow Airport on schedule.

THE ATLANTIC breakers of the western seaboard have a romantic purity. Bathing in waters that stretch for 3,000 miles gives an illusion of health and well-being, of immersion in a timeless infinity.

The two pilots who flew the Aer Lingus plane that crashed into the Irish Sea at Tuskar Rock in 1969 were honoured last night.

A PASSENGER ferry which was at the centre of a full-scale sea rescue alert after losing power off the Wexford coast yesterday, docked safely in Wales last night.

A report into the Tuskar Rock plane crash in 1968 has concluded that the Aer Lingus plane was not brought down by a British army missile.

Relatives of passengers and crew killed in the 1968 Aer Lingus plane crash have received copies of a report into the disaster.