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

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

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?

139 men, 74 women and 12 children taken from two inflatable vessels overnight by Irish naval vessel

Italian navy rescues migrants off the coast of Libya; survivors fear for missing

Migrants taken from overloaded vessel 115km northwest of Tripoli

President says Europe’s reaction to events in Mediterranean is ‘grossly inadequate’

Most of dead reportedly locked in hold of boat which sank when LÉ Niamh approached

Fishing boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized in Mediterranean

Minister says ‘multi-faceted’ approach needed to defuse rolling Mediterranean crisis

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

Only a blink of time separates our ancestors from today’s migrants

Under 1951 Refugee Convention countries are obliged to accept refugees - Sutherland

Overcrowding and exhaustion may have lead to fatalities onboard barge from Libya

Government agrees to relocation scheme as part of bid to tackle crisis in Mediterranean

Kenny says Irish have natural empathy with migrants and understanding of plight

Naval Service vessel will set sail to replace LÉ Eithne in humanitarian efforts in region

Naval Service ship has rescued 3,376 people since May deployment in Mediterranean