THERE was a time in Ireland when people made a wonder of the fact that households in America could have one, two, or even three cars.

UNLESS they’ve been abroad on skiing holidays, many young Irish people have never seen a real heavy fall of snow, or extended periods of winter frost.

IT MAY seem ironic, but developers of golf links in sensitive coastal areas are hoping Environment Minister John Gormley will listen more favourably to their case than Fianna Fáil ministers have in recent years.

Donal Hickey on our annual binge and its cleanup

Donal Hickey says organic food sales continue to rise

SEVERAL sightings of magnificent fin whales off west Cork, this month, offer further testimony that the area is becoming one of the top whale watching destinations in Europe.

PEAK demand for electricity is set to increase by 200 megawatts this winter, equal to the needs of 130,000 houses.

THE idea of tracking conjures up images of those old western films, with cowboy John Wayne yelling at Indian scouts to find which route the baddies took in their efforts to escape a silver-starred sheriff and other officers of the law.

Donal Hickey on the consequences of energy consumption.

HALLOWE’EN is almost here, a time when long nights and more hours of darkness are ushered in. But, in a world that has become obsessed with light, there are many urban areas where darkness scarcely exists any more and the sight of star-speckled skies is a rarity.