An Taisce has said the two power plants in Lanesborough in Co Longford and Shannonbridge in Co Offaly should never have been built.

Its operators have applied for permission to increase the amount of rubbish processed at the plant by 15% to 690,000 tonnes.

The sometime scourge of plans by Trump Doonbeg and other developers has lost out on his own plans to extend the number of Airbnb style studio lettings at his protected Georgian Dublin property.

Joanna Lumley has said the Irish border should not be allowed to return.

Des O’Driscoll takes us through the week’s TV viewing and what needs to be on your list.

Des O’Driscoll looks ahead to this week’s viewing schedule.

If somebody like Piers Morgan says something sexist (virtually everytime his mouth flaps open), he gets shut down, pulled up, ridiculed. 

Chris Evans led the tributes to the late Terry Wogan at a packed service at Westminster Abbey yesterday saying: “He will always be the best.”

BRITISH TV channels have been quick off the mark in revealing some of their big shows for the autumn season. Here’s a selection:

AbFab hellraisers Eddie and Patsy know the value of friendship. Margaret Jennings looks at the links between female friendship and wellbeing.

Central Intelligence 3/5

Conservationists are pleading for emergency action to stop destruction of the country’s oldest known bog road.

Ireland’s heritage watchdog has raised concerns about further filming of Star Wars on Skellig Michael off the Kerry coast.

Sean Moncrieff presents a new quiz show, Crossfire, on TV3 at 8pm tonight.

Joanna Lumley wants to be reincarnated as a giraffe.

The Prince of Wales was among more than 2,000 people who paid tribute to the late broadcaster David Frost at a service in Westminster Abbey.

Joanna Lumley doesn’t have a mobile phone and thinks social media sites are "wretched".

Jennifer Saunders only made more 'Absolutely Fabulous' episodes because Joanna Lumley told everyone she would.

Joanna Lumley badgered Julian Fellowes to give her a part in 'Downton Abbey'.

The BBC is “putting the finishing touches” to a deal to resurrect the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.

HERITAGE body An Taisce has objected to plans to revamp one of Co Cork’s best-known hotels.

THE Government’s action in taking the side of landowners and vested interests in planning legislation could cost the country several million euro in fines, warned An Taisce.

AN TAISCE has objected to plans by Coillte to build a 90-bed nursing home in a forestry in east Cork.

NEPAL’S Gurkhas gave British actress and campaigner Joanna Lumley a hero’s welcome when she landed at Kathmandu Airport yesterday on her first-ever visit to the Himalayan nation.

Thousands of retired Ghurkas today were granted permission to move to the UK after the British government relented on its policy of denying the Nepalese soldiers automatic settlement rights.

Two clergymen who witnessed the decommissioning of IRA weapons will be honoured for their role in the key chapter of the peace process, it was announced today.

Rockers U2 have angered environmentalists in Ireland with plans to build an unsightly skyscraper in Dublin.

Marts: A top price of €803 was paid for the champion continental bull weanling at the Annual Weanling Show and Sale at Skibbereen Mart yesterday.

GARDENING enthusiasts rubbed shoulders with celebrities at yesterday’s opening of the Chelsea Flower Show, where RTÉ television personality Diarmuid Gavin has designed a garden.

ALL that was missing was a glass of Bolly and a fag in her hand.

Actress Joanna Lumley will lift the lid on her life today at Dublin’s Trinity College.

RESIDENTS of a Co Louth village have appealed to An Bord Pleanála a decision to grant permission to a housing development, saying that a well discovered on the site two years ago could be linked to St Bridget.

British actress Joann Lumley is to be awarded an honorary doctorate from the University Of St Andrews in Scotland.

British actress Joanna Lumley embraces cosmetic surgery, insisting she has had some of her wrinkles erased already.

SOME owners of old, protected buildings in Killarney are allowing them to go derelict so that they can be more easily removed from the list of protected structures, executive planner Fiona O’Sullivan told Killarney Town Council.

ENVIRONMENTAL watchdog group, An Taisce, said yesterday it is going to keep a close eye on planning applications made by or on behalf of religious orders in an attempt to ensure that such development is consistent with the ethos of such groups.

Think Cinderella and you have the core of this entertaining film; think, too, The Princess Diaries. For this also stars the excellent Hathaway.

ENVIRONMENT agency An Taisce yesterday lodged an appeal over plans to build a toxic waste burner in Cork harbour.

Environment agency An Taisce today lodged an appeal over plans to build a toxic waste burner in Cork harbour.

Britain's Olympic champion rower James Cracknell was back in action today, at the Gramophone Record of the Year Awards.

ALMOST one-third of planning permissions granted for one-off housing were overturned last year due to lack of proper infrastructure such as sewerage.

AN TAISCE has sought to halt the demolition of a mid-19th century, fire-damaged chapel at a former convent in Cork city, claiming it is still protected.

PLANS to build a €300 million windfarm in Co Mayo are in doubt as fears grow that planning permission for the development will be appealed to Bord Pleanala.

The Government has come under fire for failing to utilise international powers put it place to protect the world’s best-known heritage sites.

ONE in every four tonnes of hazardous waste is dumped in up to 300 illegal dumps nationwide, An Taisce said yesterday.

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THE Government will face legal action if it does not stop charging people who wish to comment on applications for planning permission, the European Commission has said.

THE Government was accused of hypocrisy as Environment Minister Martin Cullen indicated that everyone would have to bear the burden of carbon taxes if Ireland was to meet its obligations under the Kyoto protocol.