A three-year-old child who drowned in a swimming pool was "the most amazing, happy, joyful boy you could ever wish to meet", his family has said.

The Southwest Airlines pilot being lauded as a hero in a harrowing emergency landing after a passenger was partially blown out of the jet's damaged fuselage is also being hailed for her pioneering role in a career where she has been one of the few women at the controls.

Update 11.55pm: A woman killed when she was partially blown out of a Southwest Airlines plane died of blunt impact trauma to her head, neck and torso, Philadelphia's medical examiner said.

Families of Grenfell Tower fire victims are "heartbroken" Theresa May has denied requests for a diverse, decision-making panel to sit with the head of the public inquiry.

A verdict is due today in the inquests into the deaths of five family members in Buncrana.

The deaths of two Irish people were yesterday being investigated in Dubai.

A pre-inquest hearing into the Buncrana Pier tragedy, in which five members of the same family drowned, has heard that first responders could not open the doors of the car which had entered the water.

A report into the Rescue 116 helicopter crash has recommended there should be a review of route guides in use by search and rescue helicopters in Ireland

More than 120 volunteers converged on the tiny village of Aughleam near Blacksod Bay in Co Mayo yesterday to assist in the search for the crew members of the ill-fated helicopter R116.

A sea scan for the black box and wreckage of Irish Coast Guard helicopter R116 will not take place until Sunday afternoon, because of severe weather conditions.

Strong winds and heavy sea conditions have severely hampered the search operation for Irish Coast Guard helicopter R116 in Blacksod, Mayo.

Divers and robots will today try to retrieve the black box of Irish Coast Guard helicopter R116 from the ocean where it is thought to lie at a depth of up to 40 metres.

“They say it takes a village to raise a child and he has a village around him now who will raise him on her behalf.”

“Derry has been good to me and if I can give back that's what I want to do.”

A woman who witnessed the drowning of the 46-year-old man at Ballincollig Regional Park last night was speaking on Cork’s 96fm this morning about the tragedy.

A minute’s applause on the fifth minute of the Dublin V Donegal match in Croke Park was honoured this evening for the victims of the Buncrana tragedy.

Two Irish students remain in critical condition at The Highlands Hospital in Oakland near Berkeley, today.

The Thomas Cook CEO has admitted the company failed in its handling of the tragedy that saw two young children killed by carbon monoxide poisoning in Corfu and pledged to help their parents move on with their lives.

It is just over two years, almost to the day, since the tragic death of a child devastated the north Cork town of Charleville.

Huge personal loss and tragedy befell Irish women Elber Twomey, Roseann Brennan, and Una Butler — and each has turned unimaginable horror and heartache into heroic virtue as they launch individual campaigns for safer roads and suicide prevention.

Families who lost loved ones in the Stardust nightclub fire are to reveal what they believe caused the blaze when they mark the 33rd anniversary of the disaster next week.

Two Limerick communities are in mourning after two “sports mad” cousins died tragically within weeks of each other.

Investigators were trying to pick through the icy rubble of a charred seniors’ facility in Quebec to try to identify more victims of a fire that killed at least five and left about 30 missing.