A public outcry in west Limerick led yesterday to a local authority being asked to take steps to revoke a deal to lease land to a US corporation for the development of a gasification plant.

After a controversial landfill closed last year, residents of a Co Limerick village thought their lives would improve, but council plans to lease the site for a gasification plant has locals vowing to fight against the ‘environmental horror’, writes Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe.

Haiti’s election ended in discord with nearly all the major presidential candidates calling for it to be disallowed over fraud and claims that large numbers of voters were turned away across the quake-stricken country.

Haiti’s president met Wyclef Jean for more than two hours, sparking a new round of speculation on whether the singer would be included in a list of presidential candidates.

Hip hop star Wyclef Jean’s Haiti presidential bid was in limbo today after the country’s electoral commission said it was postponing its ruling on who will be allowed to run for office in November

A research and development growth funding round of €7m has been closed by the Dublin physics software company Havok.