The English politician and reformer Samuel Plimsoll, who was born 200 years ago this weekend, is today synonymous with the safe loading lines on ships he helped bring into law. He is also accidentally ...

A POLICE sub-aqua team looking for a seaman missing from a ship in a Welsh port have found his body nearby. A POLICE sub-aqua team looking for a seaman missing from a ship in a Welsh port have found ...

The family of a young Irish seaman killed when his trawler was sunk by a German U-boat in 1940 say they hope the discovery of the wreckage will finally allow them to give him a Christian burial. Mary ...

Ray Houghton on Ireland's Wembley woes: 'I tried to be too precise, I should have smashed it home' The Republic of Ireland have never won in six visits to Wembley. Brendan O'Brien looks back to the ...