Two people have been rescued by the RNLI Lifeboat after being cut off by the rising tide at Sandymount in Dublin.

The alarm was raised at around 16:30 this afternoon when a unit of the Coast Guard spotted the pair cut off, with two more hours of incoming water and nightfall due.

A crew from the Dun Laoghaire Lifeboat were dispatched, and a crew member rescued them from the sandbank they were standing on.

The pair were unharmed from the incident.