Lack of sailors forces Naval Service to cancel patrol days
Due to ‘personnel issues’, 101 days lost so far this year compared to 28 last year
Concern as staff shortages threaten Naval Service missions at sea
Covid-19 illness and retention crisis curbing crew members and operation of navy vessels
Navy vessel LÉ Niamh damaged by onboard fire in Cork
No-one injured in blaze as Naval Service engineers to carry out examination of damage
Defence Forces to get extra money for purchases of new equipment
Defence spending next year will increase by €47.5m to almost €1b
Taoiseach ‘cannot confirm’ Naval vessels did not sail due to staff shortages
Martin accuses Government of ‘contempt’ towards defence after ‘Irish Times’ report
‘At least 23 migrants’ found dead in Mediterranean
LÉ Niamh involved in rescue of more than 700 people by EU group on ‘tough day’
Three fishermen rescued off west Cork coast
Courtmacsherry RNLI lifeboat comes to the aid of men on board sinking vessel
LÉ Róisín rescues 125 migrants in the Mediterranean
Irish naval vessel joined search and rescue operations in the region earlier this month
LÉ Samuel Beckett rescues 100 migrants near Libya
Naval Service patrol ship rescues group that includes three pregnant women
Three dead, 242 people rescued off Greek island
Earlier, LÉ Samuel Beckett rescues more than 200 off coast of Libya
Irish Naval ship LÉ ‘Samuel Beckett’ rescues 100 off Libya
Migrants taken from inflatable craft around 50kms north-west of coastal city of Tripoli
LÉ Samuel Beckett rescues 242 people off Libya
Naval Service patrol ship on its first humanitarian tasking in the Mediterranean
LÉ Niamh rescues 380 migrants from sea north of Tripoli
Irish patrol ship conducts three search and rescue missions in a day in Mediterranean
There’s a huge difference between seeking a better life and fleeing persecution
We emigrating Irish don’t have to fork out a small fortune to risk our lives on dodgy boats
LÉ Niamh arrives in Sicily after rescue of 329 refugees and migrants
Irish patrol ship rescues 317 men, 11 women and one child from Mediterranean
LÉ Niamh rescues at least 100 people from Mediterranean
Irish patrol ship received emergency call in Mediterranean at 9.50am on Saturday
Migrant crisis: LÉ Samuel Beckett to replace LÉ Niamh
Irish Naval Service extends its search and rescue operation in the Mediterranean
Breda O’Brien: Could Ireland become the fairest little country for migrants?
Images from ‘Children of Men’ are eerily similar to current television news broadcasts, down to the cages and the barbed wire
Patrick Logue: The little boy with sad eyes on the LÉ Niamh
Did he leave his family behind? Did he get to say goodbye to his grandparents, or had he watched them succumb to the water too?
LÉ Niamh rescues 225 migrants off coast of Libya
139 men, 74 women and 12 children taken from two inflatable vessels overnight by Irish naval vessel
Fifty missing after rubber dinghy sinks in Mediterranean
Italian navy rescues migrants off the coast of Libya; survivors fear for missing
LÉ Niamh rescues 125 people in Mediterranean
Migrants taken from overloaded vessel 115km northwest of Tripoli
Michael D Higgins: EU response to migrant crisis is ‘shameful’
President says Europe’s reaction to events in Mediterranean is ‘grossly inadequate’
Italy arrests five traffickers after migrant drownings
Most of dead reportedly locked in hold of boat which sank when LÉ Niamh approached
LÉ Niamh arrives in Sicily with survivors as some 200 feared drowned
Fishing boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized in Mediterranean
Simon Coveney praises professionalism of LÉ Niamh crew
Minister says ‘multi-faceted’ approach needed to defuse rolling Mediterranean crisis
LÉ Niamh rescues 367 migrants after boat capsizes off Libya coast
Many migrants in water and rescue efforts by several ships under way, Navy reports
Vincent Woods: It’s not such a long way from Calais to the Irish coffin ships
Only a blink of time separates our ancestors from today’s migrants
UK media reporting of migrants exaggerated ‘beyond belief’
Under 1951 Refugee Convention countries are obliged to accept refugees - Sutherland
LÉ Niamh recovers 14 bodies during Mediterranean rescue
Overcrowding and exhaustion may have lead to fatalities onboard barge from Libya
State will take 600 extra migrants in EU initiative
Government agrees to relocation scheme as part of bid to tackle crisis in Mediterranean
Ireland may accept more migrants, says Taoiseach
Kenny says Irish have natural empathy with migrants and understanding of plight
LÉ Niamh to join migrant rescue mission in Mediterranean
Naval Service vessel will set sail to replace LÉ Eithne in humanitarian efforts in region
Ministers pay tribute to ‘heroic work’ of LÉ Eithne crew
Naval Service ship has rescued 3,376 people since May deployment in Mediterranean
Three Ministers visit LÉ Eithne patrol ship in Malta
Navy vessel has rescued more than 3,300 migrants in Mediterranean mission
Aran Island Skipper seeks costs against State
Man was unsuccessfully prosecuted twice for alleged breaches of fishing regulations
Three sentenced for €300m cocaine smuggling operation
Men detained on Makayabella yacht off Cork coast after multi-agency operation
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