Russian firm, Rusal, which owns Aughinish Alumina in Limerick, will be avoided by customers when the industry meets in Berlin next week to seal 2019 metal-supply agreements, industry sources predict.

The US Treasury has extended the deadline to investors to divest interests in the Russian firm that owns Aughinish Alumina, in Limerick, but has not removed it from its sanctions list.

Confusion surrounds billionaire Oleg Deripaska’s position on the board of Russian aluminium giant Rusal, the owner of Aughinish Alumina in Limerick.

The Government cannot become complacent about the risk to more than 650 jobs at Aughinish Alumina in Limerick even though fears are easing about the Trump Administration’s targeting of its Russian owner Rusal.

Donald Trump's trade sanctions could have a "catastrophic" effect on the economy of rural Limerick, a TD has warned.

The Government has said it will take “weeks to assess” the impact on the Irish economy of Donald Trump’s trade sanctions on Russia as 650 jobs at Aughinish Alumina in Limerick remain under threat.

The response of other trade blocs to America’s move will hurt, writes John Whelan.

The largest alumina refinery in Europe, Aughinish Alumina on the Shannon estuary, went back into the red last year.

An EU court has ordered the Government to recover over €10m in illegal state aid from Co Limerick-based metals refinery Aughinish Alumina.

Rusal Aughinish on the Shannon Estuary, the largest alumina refinery in Europe, returned to profit last year to record pre-tax profits of $15.59m (€12.15m).

The largest alumina refinery in Europe, Rusal Aughinish on the Shannon estuary, last year plunged into the red to record pre-tax losses of $10.4m (€7.68m).

Pre-tax profits at the largest alumina refinery in Europe, RUSAL Aughinish last year decreased by 80% to $4.9m (€3.7m).

FARMERS have warned that toxic waste remains at the massive Aughinish Alumina plant in west Limerick could end up as tomorrow’s Haulbowline toxic dump unless action is taken now.

THE future of the $1.2 billion (€873m) alumina refinery at Aughinish Alumina has been secured until 2030 at least, with the company commissioning a 195-acre development that has the capacity to hold over 17 million tonnes of bauxite residue or “red mud”.

THE largest alumina refinery in Europe, RUSAL Aughinish, last year returned to profit after revenues almost doubled to $496.9 million (€344.9m).

TECHNOLOGY ideas will be nurtured into start-up businesses in two industry- led institutions launched yesterday by Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton.

AUGHINISH Alumina has denied claims by farmers living near its facility on the Shannon Estuary that bauxite residue, similar to that which has caused the Hungarian environment disaster, poses a risk here.

JOBS at the Aughinish Alumina factory in Askeaton in Co Limerick may be under threat after the European Commission decided to appeal a ruling on tax exemptions by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the company’s favour.

LIMERICK suffered another jobs blow yesterday when 130 staff at the Castletroy Park Hotel were let go as the hotel went into liquidation.

THE International Transport Federation is to demand access to a Cyprus-registered ship due to land at the Aughinish Alumina plant in Foynes.

AUGHINISH Alumina and the Government have won a legal battle against the European Commission in a case that had threatened the future of some jobs at the company’s Askeaton plant in Limerick.

THE European Court of Justice is to issue a ruling today which could pose a threat to the future of some jobs at the Aughinish Alumina plant in Askeaton, Co Limerick.

ONE of the ESB’s biggest customers is to produce its own electricity.

THE Aughinish Alumina plant is facing a new EU pollution probe following complaints by local farmers.

A THREATENED civil war in Africa could hit raw material supplies to a Limerick plant, putting 700 jobs at risk.

Team Montenotte Hotel Cork have defeated UL Aughinish 89-75 in a pulsating final in the National Basketball Arena to claim the Women's Superleague National Cup.

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AUGHINISH Alumina must repay up to €10 million to the revenue commissioners because they were illegally exempted from paying excise duty on heavy fuel oil over the past 19 years.

The Department of the Marine is to investigate a secret pollution reporting deal between a factory and a fisheries board.

TRALEE TIGERS are determined to build on their confidence-boosting victory in Limerick last Monday when they travel to UCD tomorrow in week four of basketball’s NIVEA for Men SuperLeague.

THE State environmental watchdog yesterday defended its decision to give the all-clear to a factory at the centre of a pollution row.

ONE of the longest serving and most successful sponsorships in Irish sport horse breeding came to an end at Limerick’s two day show over the weekend.

A GROUP of farmers have raised concerns about the recent spillage of 50,000 litres of caustic soda at the Aughinish Alumina plant with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

THE Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must review its response procedures to industrial accidents after the revelation of a second caustic soda spill in the past six weeks, environmentalists and politicians said yesterday.

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THEY have the National Cup safely stashed away in Tralee, have topped the Southern Conference, and will be raging hot favourites to retain the NIVEA for Men SuperLeague when they put the title on the line at the Mardyke Arena in Cork this weekend.

Today’s draw for the quarter finals of the National Cup saw the two SuperLeague conference leaders pitted against each other, with Abrekebabra Tigers travelling to DART Killester.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern will come under pressure today to order an independent investigation into how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a licence to the Aughinish Alumina plant.

MASSIVE turbines and generators weighing almost 500 tonnes were shipped into Foynes yesterday for the new electricity power generating station being built by Aughinish Alumina at the nearby Aughinish Island.

The Mardyke Arena saw an enthralling contest as Mardyke UCC Demons took on defending champions Abrakebara Tigers in the Men’s SuperLeague.

Farmers expressed shock today at a decision which will lead to a massive rise in the amount of toxic waste deposited near their lands in Co Limerick.

A MUD stack beside the Aughinish Alumina factory in Limerick is to be discussed by the Dáil environment committee.

GREEN PARTY leader Trevor Sargent yesterday called on owners of Aughinish Alumina to back Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to monitor emissions from the plant.