#irish-coast-guard

#irish-coast-guard

The new president's actions have raised eyebrows at Leinster House, although nobody is yet saying a word. This goes to the sometimes tense relationship between a Head of State and the Government.

A man, aged in his 20s, was arrested under Section 5 of the Non Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997 and has since been released without charge.

A bomb threat was sent to Garda Headquarters, warning that a device would be detonated near a garda station if authorities acted heavily against fuel protesters.

The trawler carrying about 250 men, women and children reportedly sank due to heavy winds, rough seas and overcrowding, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Hundreds of gardaí have formed an effective ring of steel around the city centre. Protesters did not resist the move to free up the country's main thoroughfare.

I stood on the edge of a cliff in Howth, clipped into a harness, listening as a Coast Guard officer calmly checked the ropes that were about to lower me down. Below, waves broke against the rocks at Whitewater Brook while walkers passed along the paths near us, largely unaware of the training exercise taking place just metres away.

The Coast Guard launched a search and rescue mission early Friday after receiving an alert from the 72-foot Lily Jean about 25 miles off Cape Ann. Searchers found a debris field near where the alert was sent along with a body in the water and an empty life raft, the Coast Guard said. Crews covered about 1,000 square miles (2,589 square kilometers) using multiple aircraft, cutters and small boats over a 24-hour period.

Maximo Macanas, a McKinleyville resident, was discovered by a local sport vessel on Tuesday, according to a Facebook post by the Del Norte County Sheriff's Office. He was pronounced dead by the county coroner's office on Tuesday afternoon. Macanas was fishing with a friend and his children at the Klamath River near 4351 Klamath Beach Road when he was swept away Saturday afternoon by what the Del Norte County Sheriff's Office described as a sneaker wave,

"It will prove cold with some frost and ice in places on Friday morning, especially in the west and north," she said. "Munster and south Leinster will see cloud, but that will clear to leave dry and sunny conditions with a few isolated showers in the north and highest temperatures of 3C to 7C," she said. Friday night will prove mainly dry but very cold and frosty with some icy patches.

The new national maritime security strategy launching today has identified "critical gaps" in Ireland's marine domain awareness with the state at heightened risk from foreign actors. The strategy also outlines how the current volatile international security environment has "heightened the risk of foreign actors" threatening Ireland's maritime territory for strategic advantage.