Ireland has been found to have breached its international obligations over to access to information on the environment.

Ireland has been found to be in breach of its international obligations in relation to access to information on the environment.

The Taoiseach has indicated that the Government could restart the National Broadband Plan (NBP) tender process after Eir claimed they could deliver the high speed network for one third of the current price.

The Department of Public Expenditure’s top civil servant has refused to come before an Oireachtas committee investigation into broadband today.

The private operators of Eircode will receive a payment of €150,000 this year following the results of a survey that found that over 70% of the public know their code.

A national map of outdoor mobile phone coverage for 2G, 3G and 4G services for a range of providers has been published by ComReg, the Commission for Communications Regulation, which regulates the electronic communications and postal sectors.

From today public bodies, including schools and hospitals, are no longer allowed to purchase single-use plastics such as cups, cutlery and straws, writes Joyce Feegan.

The head of the ISPCC has warned that online safety is “the child protection issue of our day”.

JUST how long can this farce continue? This is a Government struggling for life and no longer able to guarantee the passage of its legislation.

The Irish solar industry is losing out during the heatwave due to the lack of Government support even as records were being broken for energy production in the UK.

Cork County Council is to carry out an economic impact study in an effort to persuade government departments of the value of replacing a collapsing weir on the River Blackwater in Co Cork.

Electricity bills in future are likely to be calculated on different rates applying to three time periods each day following the introduction of smart meters.

Householders are struggling to make meaningful comparisons on waste collection fees because of poor online or phone information from many of the dozens of firms in the market, a Government-backed monitor has warned.

Senior Irish political figures may be at risk of having their emails hacked in much the same way as Hillary Clinton experienced in the 2016 US presidential election.

Residents of Sherkin Island off the Cork coast have been without a landline phone service since Storm Ophelia — and have now been rebuffed after calling on the Government to consider laying broadband cable instead.

Paddy O’Shea, who has been running a post office for the last 37 years in East Cork, believes he will be out of business in three to five years.

New statutory guidelines on wind farm design are expected to issue to planning authorities early in 2018.

The HSE will continue to block external emails until late tomorrow following the international cyber attack which affected 200,000 computers in 150 countries.

Latest: 200,000 victims worldwide have now been hit by the "WannaCry" cyber attack.

The collection of the TV licence fee may be outsourced to a private company in a bid to stamp out widespread evasion that is costing RTÉ up to €40m in lost revenue each year.

Planning for solar farms is being “kept under review”, the minister with responsibility for planning Simon Coveney has said, amid growing concerns about the lack of national guidelines.