Over 500 rescued by LÉ Eithne this weekemd

Over 500 migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean by the Irish Navy Vessel the LÉ Eithne this weekend.

Efforts are continuing to save more people tonight as hundreds more flee war torn countries during a good spell of weather.

A British ship the HMS Bulwark has more than a thousand migrants on board this evening.

One of them, Abdul Karim Saleh says he left Sudan with a toothbrush, a passport photo of himself and a few hundred euro, leaving his family behind.

"My brothers and sisters are very young, I came to try to help them. We have no schools, we have no hospitals, so it is a difficult life," said Mr Saleh.