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…

It’s great to see the weather getting warmer and drier as spring has well and truly sprung. The fine weather means people can be out and about, taking advantage of…

Gardaí are investigating the theft of a fire engine worth over €400,000 from a station in Co Donegal. The vehicle was stolen from the Stranorlar Fire Station at the weekend…

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council has bestowed the Freedom of Entry to the County on the Irish Naval Service. The Award is in recognition of its humanitarian service on behalf of…

The Garda reserve has begun a recruitment drive to take on 300 more recruits by the end of the year. The recruitment campaign is part of the Government’s commitment to…

The RNLI and GAA have announced a new major partnership aimed at reducing the number of people who lose their lives through drowning in Ireland. Each year an average of…

Air Accident Investigators probing the crash of Coast Guard helicopter Rescue 116 have signalled that wreckage from the aircraft shows marks “consistent with the tail” hitting rocky surfaces on Blackrock…

Almost a quarter of all calls received by Irish fire brigade services are false alarms. The revelation came to light as it emerged that, on average, a hoax call is…

CHC Ireland – a subsidiary of Canada’s CHC Helicopter – provides search and rescue (SAR) services for the Coast Guard under a €500m Government contract, and the company plans to…

    In an era when all metrics are categorised into league tables and subjected to international comparison studies, anything related to ambulance response times that do not hit their…

Northern Ireland Ambulance Service is proud to announce that the new purpose built Ambulance Station and Divisional Headquarters in Ballymena is now operational. The new Station is built on an…

Masses have been held to commemorate the victims of the Carrickmines halting site fire that claimed 11 lives – including an unborn baby – last year. The deadly fire broke…

A FIREFIGHTER WHOSE car was stolen in a break-in at a Dublin fire station has thanked the public and gardaí for their help as he has now been reunited with…

Manjola Sloan was in her house at Moylaragh Gardens, Balbriggan, with her mother and friend when the blaze broke out shortly after 10.30pm. Her husband, Alan, was trick-or-treating with their…