Latest: The Minister for Education, Richard Bruton, has "broadly welcomed" the move by the ETBI to no longer hold communion preparation classes during the school day at Community National Schools.

A junior minister will see first hand how Ireland’s overseas aid programme has improved the lives of some of the world’s poorest families.

THE €1.8 million reconstructed Mizen Head footbridge connecting the country’s southernmost lighthouse to the mainland has scooped two major engineering gongs at the Engineers Ireland Excellence Awards.

WHEN Michael Cusack and his band of pioneers founded the GAA in Hayes’s Hotel 127 years ago, they would never have believed how big that organisation would grow.

AS the GAA basks in the glory of another successful All-Ireland final, the game continues to flourish outside these shores.

Plans were revealed today for the development of a national wave energy test site off Annagh Head, west of Belmullet, Co. Mayo.

THE ESB has bought its first wind farms in Britain for an undisclosed sum. One is based in Devon and the other is the West Durham.

Testing on a potentially groundbreaking new technology in power generation is getting underway today in Strangford Lough.

ESB International (ESBI) has signed a €12 million engineering consultancy contract with the Electricity and Water Authority of Bahrain to oversee a major new project for the upgrade of Bahrain’s electricity transmission network.

The Minister for Enterprise Micheál Martin, has announced the signing of a new contract between ESB International and Eskom, the South African electricity company in Johannesburg during the Irish trade mission to South Africa.

THE ESB is to build a second power station in Spain at a cost of around €500 million.

The ESB's international arm, ESBI, is to launch the first internationally-owned independent power plant in the Basque region of Spain today.

THE international arm of the ESB has won a contract to manage and oversee the construction of a power plant in Namibia.

The ESB has won a major international contract to develop a new gas-fired power station in Namibia.

THE ESB has sold a 50% stake in its Spanish power plant to a Japanese gas company for around €75 million.

ESB International (ESBI) has increased its presence in the UK energy market with the purchase of Southampton company Marchwood Power Ltd.

THE ESB expressed disappointment yesterday at a decision by American authorities to suspend a lucrative project that the ESB had been named as preferred bidder to manage.

ESB International has won a €1m contract in Vietnam to advise on the construction of a major new power station.