ALMOST five years ago, when the troika stormtroopers confronted our Government with a chilling dose of reality around what we could and could not afford, one of the cost drivers targetted was Ireland’s exceptionally high legal fees. 

A five-judge Supreme Court has unanimously rejected arguments by the National Assets Management Agency that it is not a public authority subject to freedom of environmental information requests.

The Department of the Environment said it has no record of being written to by a UN committee investigating whether Ireland was properly consulted in Britain’s decision to build a new nuclear power plant.

During the height of the Celtic Tiger, many politicians and commentators repeated the mantra that the banks were capitalised and the fundamentals were sound.

The Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources is preparing for a courtroom showdown with a chemical engineer in the new year over the Government’s renewable energy plans.

Environmentalists have been refused a High Court order allowing them the means to legally challenge Teagasc’s planned genetically-modified potato trials.

I SEE that Clare County Council, in response to a vocal minority of protestors, has decided to amend its county plan to ban the practise of “fracking” within its jurisdiction.

AS 2011 draws to a close, householders could be asking themselves whether they should be with The Big Switch; Ireland’s Got A New Energy; or Energy Made Better?

Citizens have access to details after NAMA was ruled a ‘public authority’ and subject to certain information requests, write Gavin Sheridan and Fred Logue

I WOULD like to appeal to An Bord Pleanála, the EPA, the State and Indaver to forgo any temptation to seek costs from the concerned Cork citizens and their organisations who have so valiantly worked to protect their environment from an incinerator in Ringaskiddy.

AT this late stage in the M3 motorway construction, the henge at Lismullin is an impressive find.