Latest: Five fishermen have been rescued after their boat lost power and was drifting in seas off the Donegal coast this afternoon.

A mountain rescue volunteer has been airlifted to safety after he was injured in a fall during a training exercise in Co Clare this morning.

A young girl has been airlifted from the Rock of Cashel in Co Tipperary today after suffering injuries in a fall.

10 people were airlifted to Letterkenny University Hospital by the rescue 118 helicopter.

The Courtmacsherry lifeboat in Co Cork carried out two rescues this morning.

A rescue operation has taken place after a hiker was reported to be in difficulty today in an area known as The Devil's Ladder.

An elderly man has been airlifted to hospital after he was injured in a fall while taking part in a fishing competition in Co Clare this afternoon.

More than two dozen people took part in a search last night after a small aircraft was reported to be in difficulty in Waterford.

The casualty was rescued from the Queen Mary II this morning 80 miles off the Fastnet Rock on the Cork coast.

The search for a man who left a valuable wedding voucher in the car of a taxi driver killed in a paragliding accident has succeeded.

The devastated wife of a taxi driver who died in a paragliding accident on Saturday has revealed how “happy” he was to find the man who had left a wedding voucher in his car just 24 hours before he died.

Family and friends of the man who died in a paragliding accident have paid tributes to the big-hearted enthusiast.

Ralph Skora, 30s, is believed to have been on the Wicklow Mountains yesterday.

The American students in their 20s were trapped by incoming tide near Coumeenole Beach last night.

A tug boat made efforts to extinguish the fire on the boat but it later sank.

The man was treated and brought by helicopter to University Hospital Waterford.

A body was located and recovered from the sea this afternoon about a mile off the Galway coast.

Rescuers have passed water and food to some of the dozens of people trapped in a collapsed Indonesian gold mine, an official said, calling the gruelling rescue effort in a remote inaccessible location a "race against time".

An Irish Coast Guard crew are being praised for carrying out a very difficult rescue on the Aran Islands this afternoon.

Dún Laoghaire RNLI came to his aid when it launched its inshore lifeboat yesterday afternoon.

A walker stranded on a ledge on Ireland’s highest mountain, Carrauntoohil, in the MacGillycuddy's Reeks near Killarney owes his rescue to a signal from personal locator beacon picked up by a coordination centre in Houston, Texas.

Heroic firefighters launched themselves into the River Shannon tonight to save a man from drowning.

A person has been rescued from the River Liffey in Dublin this morning.

The Irish Aviation Authority is to get additional resources to implement changes proposed in a report highlighting a fragmented and sometimes disconnected level of oversight of search and rescue aviation operations.

A man is being treated in hospital this evening after being rescued from the Liffey in Dublin.

A search operation will resume this morning for a man who has been reported missing in Lough Erne in Co Fermanagh.

Four people were rescued on the River Shannon in Lough Derg yesterday after their boat ran aground.

A fisherman had to be rescued early today after he fell 5 metres from a cliff in Co Clare.

Baltimore RNLI assisted a fishing vessel in difficulty south of Kedge Island off the coast of Baltimore, West Cork this afternoon.

The Coastguard has renewed its appeal for water safety after difficulties in Counties Wexford and Waterford earlier today.

Three people have been rescued from the sea off the coast of Dun Laoghaire in Dublin.

An elderly couple have been rescued from a sinking vessel in Lough Derg.

Three men have been rescued from the water in Clontarf in Dublin after they got into difficulty while swimming near Bull Island.

Baltimore RNLI carried out a medical evacuation last night after they were called to provide medical assistance to a man working on Cape Clear Island off the coast of West Cork.

Two men who had to abandon ship in Derrynane off the coast of Co Kerry have been rescued.

A search operation on the River Lee in Cork has been stood down after a person was recovered alive.

Latest: All Army cadets evacuated from a mountain in Co Down following bad weather are safe, a spokesman said.

Latest: Search and rescue volunteer Caitriona Lucas died trying to recover the body of a missing man in Co Clare.

A fisherman is tonight recovering from hypothermia in hospital after his boat sank in the Shannon Estuary.

A man was rescued from a boat which ran aground in the Shannon Estuary this afternoon.

Officials at Galway Harbour have insisted that there is no risk of pollution from a stricken French factory ship currently anchored in Galway Bay.

A ship that caught fire off the west coast is now safely docked in Galway bay.

A rescue mission has been launched off Galway Bay where a French registered ship is on fire with 26 people on board.