A NEW way of reporting pollution is welcome, but tricky. An iPhone app, launched by the EPA, makes it easy to contact your local authority, on-the-spot, with a complaint.

Employers’ group Ibec has urged the Government to effectively double the controversial new property tax on householders to ease the burden on business.

ENVIRONMENT Minister John Gormley has said he will establish a group to implement newly made recommendations on local government reform.

THE country’s local authorities and Vocational Education Committees (VECs) are battling it out to have sole responsibility for the administration of the €200 million student grants scheme.

ANGRY Cork county councillors have claimed the ESB is failing in its duty to repair public lighting in reasonable time and have demanded that the local authority seek contracts with an alternative energy-provider.