First for Navy with overseas aid mission
Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Defence Minister Simon Coveney, and other political and military dignitaries will gather at the Naval Service headquarters in Haulbowline, Co Cork, to mark the departure of LÉ Eithne and her 70-strong crew on a voyage to the Mediterranean to prevent migrants drowning.
The UN estimates 60,000 people have tried to cross the Mediterranean so far this year and nearly 2,000 have drowned.
