It’s 50 years since the films of Jacques Cousteau inspired the first Irish sub-aqua adventurers. Today 80 clubs, all over the country, are affiliated to the Irish Underwater Council

Irish Underwater Council expresses condolences to bereaved families and friends

Four divers have died off the Irish coast in the past three weeks

They started with no boats, no cylinders and woolly diving gear. Half a century on, the Irish Underwater Council is coming up for air

Inspired by the Great Western Greenway cycling route, a sequence of kayak and snorkel trails on the Wild Atlantic Way in Co Mayo and Co Galway give a glimpse of another world