Fire crews are dealing with a significant gorse fire in Clare this evening where a Condition Orange fire risk warning is in place until Friday.

Minister for Marine Michael Creed has discontinued a licence held by Norwegian multinational Mowi for a fish farm in Co Kerry.

EAST Cork food and retail businesses are making huge cost savings and having positive impacts on the environment and staff morale thanks to Savour Food, a new food waste reduction programme.

In collaboration with Teagasc, the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland has launched a new scheme for 2018 of support for installation of more efficient vacuum and milk pump technology on dairy farms.

An organisation opposed to the development of another salmon farm in Bantry Bay says the area is “already overburdened” with them and believes there’s a direct link between such farms and sea lice infestation which can kill wild fish.

Cork scientists have found that breastfeeding is very important for premature babies born by caesarian section.

The EU’s new scheme to pay dairy farmers to produce less milk can increase milk prices much earlier than expected, and get farmers back into a profitable situation, said ICMSA president John Comer.

Smithwick’s is the first beer brand in Ireland with new labels detailing alcohol content and nutritional information.

The decision of the UK to leave the European Union will have serious implications for all sectors of the Irish economy including the agri-food sector.

A new scientific study has warned that an emerald borer beetle and the fungus causing ash dieback disease could kill millions of ash trees in Europe.

THE inherited love that Irish people have for the humble spud is growing again after a brief cooling off in the 430-year relationship.

Salmon Watch Ireland welcomes the recent publication of an international review of over 300 scientific publications on the effects of sea lice on stocks of wild sea trout.

A shellfish harvesting company is warning it will seek millions of euro in compensation if Irish Water proceeds with the construction of a new water treatment plant in east Cork.

Two-thirds of the Government’s €19m flood support funding pot specifically set aside to boost defenses in the wake of the worst storms in a century have yet to be drawn down by local authorities.

The country's second youngest TD, Simon Harris, has been appointed as Junior Finance Minister, the position formerly held by Brian Hayes, in the Government's reshuffle.

A second top Irish horse trainer faces charges over the possession of banned substances.

Hundreds of businesses are locked into upward-only rent reviews with the same landlord: the Government.

A massive 555 State contracts costing €266m awarded last year failed to undergo any financial checks to ensure transpar-ency and fairness in the lucrative system.

Q&A with Minister Shane McEntee

WOODEN logs on sale in Aldi stores throughout the country have been recalled after fears they may be harbouring a beetle with the potential to devastate forests.

WORK will commence within the next 10 days to help make safe a toxic dump in Cork harbour.

WORK will commence within the next 10 days to help make safe a toxic dump in Cork harbour.