A team of Meath firefighters have finished in third place in the World Rescue Challenge extrication event held in Romania last weekend. The Meath firefighters were the top Irish placed…

A new BBC documentary currently airing is shining a light on the the lives of the RNLI’s volunteer lifeboat crew members, who rescue thousands of people and save hundreds of…

A new air ambulance service service has launched in the North following a 12-year campaign. The introduction of the new service will see emergency paramedics able to reach any part…

Following the deaths of seven road users in the past week, An Garda Síochána and the Road Safety Authority (RSA) renewed their appeal for road safety ahead of the August…

Eight firefighters from Meath are putting final preparations in place to take part in ‘Race Around Ireland’ – the ultra marathon cycling event around Ireland – in August to raise…

Coast Guard volunteer Caitríona Lucas, who died during an operation off the coast of Clare last year, has been awarded a posthumous degree at Aberystwyth University in Wales. Lucas, who…

Phibsboro was transformed into a disaster zone yesterday as Dublin Fire Brigade carried out an elaborate drill to teach trainee paramedics how to handle a ‘mass casualty incident’. The scenario…

A lifeboat crew from Kinsale RNLI have stressed the importance of wearing lifejackets after saving an adult, five children and a dog off the Cork coast in a matter a…

The deadline is fast approaching for patients to document their hospital experience in a new Government national survey. The closing date is the July 26 and the Health Minister Simon…

Calls for nationwide fire safety checks after discovery of Grenfell cladding on Cork County Council HQ Calls have been made to expand fire safety checks beyond multi-floor social housing units…

European MedTech Week officially launched this week, with numerous events taking place across Ireland to celebrate it. As well as a strong base of medical professionals and a dynamic medtech…

A special tribute was paid to the crew of Rescue Helicopter 116 by colleagues from Dublin Airport’s Police and Fire Service. The workers and families of the lost crew were…

Gardaí will be stepping up efforts to crack down on domestic and sexual crimes across the country. Four new divisional protective service units (DPSU) have gone live and gardaí say…

After seventeen grueling weeks of rigorous training, fifty recruits have completed their passing-out parade today in the Fire Brigade Training Centre, Marino, Dublin 3. Forty-eight of these recruits are from…

Members from the Irish Defence Forces, An Garda Síochána, Civil Defence, Dublin Fire Brigade and the National Ambulance Service will join forces in aid of Temple Street Children’s Hospital on…

Efforts have resumed this morning to bring the blaze at Cloosh Valley in Connemara under control with more than a third of the country’s biggest forest destroyed by the fire…

A truck and Luas crashed this morning in Tallaght resulting in two passengers being brought to hospital and the suspension of some Red Line services. The incident happened between 6am and…

Fire Services has yet another busy weekend of fighting gorse and grass fires across the country as the dry weather continues. Yesterday evening, Dublin Fire Brigade were tackling a gorse…

The Road Safety Authority (RSA) and An Garda Síochána are warning road users of the dangers of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs ahead of the May Bank…

A Tyrone firefighter has been praised after he carried a struggling fellow runner across the finish line of this year’s Boston Marathon. Crew Commander Terry Canning, from Omagh, came across…