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<p>Weir Island, Adjacent to Fota, Aerial View.Pic Billy MacGill</p>

outdoors

Islands of Ireland: Weir Island could have been the site of Cork's airport in a different era

Plans to build a seaplane base at Cobh and an aerodrome at Belvelly and Weir Island were looked at back in the 1930s

<p>Foynes Flying Boat & Maritime Museum board chairman Eamonn Brennan shows Taoiseach Leo Varadkar the museum's new flight simulator, at the official opening of the redevelopment. Picture: Arthur Ellis.</p>

munster

High flyers land at aviation's Irish home in Foynes

<p>The Aughinish Alumina Refinery on the Shannon Estuary near Foynes Co Limerick which produces bauxite, a critical raw material in Europe because of its importance in the aluminium “value chain”.</p>

companies

Limerick plant approved for fast-track planning

Man shot in face by Garda 'in serious but stable condition'

news

Man shot in face by Garda 'in serious but stable condition'

Ban leads to jobs at Foynes

business

Ban leads to jobs at Foynes

Direct Provision system for asylum seekers 'not fit for purpose'

news

Direct Provision system for asylum seekers 'not fit for purpose'

Limerick facility plans to convert waste into electricity

A €240m unique waste disposal project in this country will see household waste turned into electricity at a new facility in Co Limerick.

Tue, 24 Mar, 2015