The Irish Coast Guard provided critical assistance to 537 people over 2024, preventing loss of life and/or delivering people to appropriate medical care.

The single-engine aircraft crashed into a farm building near Killucan about 3.30pm on Tuesday.

A B3-type helicopter crashed at the Petit Combin mountain landing site during a drop-off

Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four others died when the Leonardo AW169 crashed outside the club’s King Power Stadium in October 2018.

The assets include a Bell 222 helicopter, a DAF lorry, a 7.5 tonne Daewoo Digger, 9 tonne Neuson dumper, as well as Air hockey and basketball gaming machines and 3 'Teddy Crane' gaming machines.

The helicopter crashed into a field in Brannockstown about 5kms southeast of Kilcullen on Sunday evening.

The incident happened around 2:50pm this afternoon and there are unconfirmed reports of a casualty.

The alarm was raised shortly after 2.00pm when emergency services received a report that a person had fallen in The Burren.

Airport crash crews mobilised the short distance to the scene and found that pilot was uninjured.

A Status Orange Forest Fire warning is in place as temperatures soar up to 30 degrees across the country