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A large-scale search operation, which had gone into its fourth day, ended yesterday morning following the grim discovery of the missing man’s body at the Claddagh Basin.

As part of the RNLI's SOS campaign, Keith Brennan of Brennan's Lane in Ballina is going to take a bath in a wheelie bin filled with cold water and ice cubes.

Experience the excitement of the RNLI Achill Lifeboat Swim on New Year’s Day. This unique event takes place at Dugort Strand at 1pm sharp.

The Irish Red Cross has called on families, communities, workplaces, and sports clubs to organise fundraising efforts to provide essential services and equipment to flooded areas in the devastated country.

Co Galway will not have to endure the flooding it suffered last winter if the recommendations for flood prevention in a new report are followed, funded, and implemented.

Three men were rescued from a sinking yacht off Spiddal Pier on Sunday morning.

Westmeath County Council has been instructed to prepare emergency plans for flooding and severe cold weather, after a report this week found the overall response to the winter’s extreme weather conditions to be “inadequate”.

Galway RNLI Lifeboat rescued a family whose small boat broke down on Galway Bay earlier this week.

A group of children living with the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster are to receive free eyecare from Specsavers in Castlebar during a respite holiday in Ireland.

Dancers from Mayo helped to break a new Guinness World Record last weekend when the longest ever Riverdance line-up of 392 dancers performed together. The charity event raised £10,000 for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and will go towards training volunteer lifeboat crews in Ireland. The world record stood at 312 but 392 dancers lined the banks of the River Foyle in Derry to dance together for five minutes and smash the world record on Sunday last, it is now hoped the new record will be officially confirmed in the next few weeks.