Donal Hickey on the growing rodent population.

AS water becomes scarcer in Ireland, the clamour to charge domestic users for this most essential, though taken for granted, of substances is certain to rise.

Donal Hickey previews the SEI 2008 Energy Show.

ENOUGH people to fill Croke Park five times over will take to the highways and byways during April, picking up rubbish recklessly and shamelessly thrown to the four winds.

Donal Hickey on the soaring rate of cetacean deaths.

PEOPLE driving daily into cities and towns to work might think traffic moves slowly, but it will get slower.

Donal Hickey on our future use of water

A STRANGE-LOOKING fish, caught off the south-west coast last summer, has been tracked to the Bay of Biscay.

PUPILS in the Black Valley primary school, deep in the Kerry hills, are well aware they live amidst exquisite wild beauty. Given the environment in which they learn it’s not surprising nature walks and art are an important part of their curriculum.

Donal Hickey sees new hope for Ireland’s bogland