Over a quarter of defence spending to go on pensions

Irish navy vessel rescues 703 migrants from five inflatable boats off Tripoli coast

LÉ Eithne called to co-ordinate several rescue operations as migrant crisis continues

Search for data device hampered by winds and currents but faint ping still audible

President Higgins due to attend funeral of Capt Dara Fitzpatrick in Dublin today

Conditions very challenging and water ‘like a washing machine’ due to outcrops of rock

‘Weak’ transmission picked up during continued search for three missing crew

Irish naval vessel joined search and rescue operations in the region earlier this month

Naval Service patrol ship rescues group that includes three pregnant women

Earlier, LÉ Samuel Beckett rescues more than 200 off coast of Libya

Naval Service patrol ship on its first humanitarian tasking in the Mediterranean

Irish patrol ship conducts three search and rescue missions in a day in Mediterranean

The predictable chorus that we ‘must look after our own first’ is depressing

We emigrating Irish don’t have to fork out a small fortune to risk our lives on dodgy boats

Irish patrol ship rescues 317 men, 11 women and one child from Mediterranean

Irish patrol ship received emergency call in Mediterranean at 9.50am on Saturday

Irish Naval Service extends its search and rescue operation in the Mediterranean

Document identifies threats to State from cyberattacks and terrorism

Images from ‘Children of Men’ are eerily similar to current television news broadcasts, down to the cages and the barbed wire

Many migrants in water and rescue efforts by several ships under way, Navy reports