New radiation protection legislation that requires all employers in high radon areas to test their workplace for the radioactive gas radon has been introduced.

A LOCAL authority was praised yesterday for eradicating the risks posed by a potentially deadly gas found in its housing stock.

IRELAND has the world’s sixth-highest rate of the cancer-causing radon gas according to figures from the World Health Organisation (WHO).

TWELVE companies, including Paddy Power bookmakers, are to face criminal prosecution next month by the country’s nuclear watchdog over their alleged failure to conduct tests for the cancer-causing gas, radon.