The life-saving partnership between the GAA and the search and rescue charity, the RNLI, is gearing up this bank holiday weekend to help save lives.

The crews of the Shannon based search and rescue helicopter and Kilrush RNLI lifeboat have been involved in the rescue of a young child in the Shannon Estuary this afternoon.

The Irish Coast Guard will lead any search and rescue operation off the Irish coast this evening in the unlikely event that the crew of SpaceX’s Demo-2 mission are forced to ditch in the Atlantic Ocean.

A man has been airlifted to hospital after he was injured in an incident in Newmarket on Fergus this afternoon.

The funeral has taken place of Tom Stack who served as Chief Fire Officer (CFO) for Co Clare for over three decades and who is credited with being instrumental in modernising the service.

The Killaloe unit of the Irish Coast Guard was requested to assist in the search for a missing person near Nenagh in Co Tipperary this afternoon.

UL Hospitals Group has introduced a skin temperature monitoring system at University Hospital Limerick in an intensification of efforts to minimise the risk of Covid-19 infection among patients and staff at the region's main acute hospital.

A body has been recovered from the sea in Co Clare this evening.