A case involving the shooting of a native red Killarney stag has been unresolved for three-and-a-half years since the offence and almost two years since it first came before the courts — prompting a judge to note it had “the longest tail” ever seen.

A maritime historian has warned that one of three Spanish Armada wrecks off the coast of Streedagh in Sligo may be under threat following the discovery of what appears to be ballast from one of the galleons on the beach.

The first national report on birds of prey persecution and poisoning in Ireland has been published.

In a phenomenon witnessed for the first time in Ireland in over 110 years, two white-tailed eagle chicks have successfully fledged and flown from their nest.

ONE of the great mysteries of the M3 motorway was why they were so insistent and went to so much trouble to put it through an pristine archaeological landscape of the Gahra valley.