The Killaloe unit of the Irish Coast Guard was tasked this evening to assist three people on board a grounded vessel on Lough Derg.

World renowned explorer Jim McNeill has chosen Ennis writer and children’s entertainer Anthony Galvin to take part in one of the most important and ambitious polar expeditions of our time; to be the first ever to reach the Northern Pole of Inaccessibility, collecting vital climate change data on route.

The Lough Derg RNLI lifeboat launched last evening to assist four people on a 36ft motor cruiser with engine failure.

One person has been airlifted to hospital being rescued from the sea in Co Clare this evening. A second person managed to make it ashore safely.

The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) has released White-tailed Eagles into the wild as part of a long-term initiative to re-establish a population of this iconic, and once extinct, species in Ireland.

A major inter-county multi-agency search and rescue operation was mounted this afternoon after a kayaker got into difficulty on the River Shannon.

The Kilrush RNLI lifeboat and Shannon-based Irish Coast Guard helicopter have been involved in a major search and rescue operation off the Kerry coast this evening.

A man and you child have been rescued from the sea at Fanore in North Clare this afternoon.