Flooding and high winds are continuing to cause problems for many homeowners and business people across the country today.

It was a game-changing year for Cork’s residential market, says Sheila O’Flynn, MD of Sherry FitzGerald.

A second whale has died after becoming stranded off Northern Ireland’s north coast.

Despite the exceptionally high levels of rainfall, it is totally unacceptable that major flooding occurs and that local, regional and national roads are rendered impassable.

A suspected submerged submarine has been discovered in the North, it has been revealed.

Because of the downturn in the building industry in recent years, partially completed private housing developments have been lying unsold. Uncertainty reigned and nothing happened.

A construction firm boss says the completed stock in Cork is equivalent to just three months normal demand, writes Tommy Barker

IN ALL my 45 years as a public representative, I have never witnessed until now the mental strain and anxiety amongst the business community as they struggle financially to meet rents, rates, leases and income tax. This mental strain has sent many of them to an early grave.

Thousands of tonnes of waste illegally dumped in rural Co Fermanagh will be returned to the Republic tomorrow.

A LEADING environmental group has warned the Government will inevitably face court actions over the hazardous waste dump at the former Irish Steel site in Cork harbour.

Over 200 rivers in the North are officially classified as ’polluted’ it was revealed today.

A campaign to promote better driving among the North’s migrant communities is being launched today.

An invasion of deadly jellyfish could stretch for hundreds of miles around the Irish coast, an expert said tonight.

A minister in the North minister has banned officials in the Republic from sitting on committees advising his department, it was confirmed today.

An extra 3,000 flights a year could use Belfast City Airport, it was revealed today.

The sentencing of Bus Éireann, Meath County Council and Keltank Ltd, arising from the investigation into the 2005 fatal bus crash in which five Meath schoolgirls were killed, has been set for next Thursday.

A County Louth test centre has been acquitted on charges arising from the investigation into the fatal bus crash in which five Meath schoolgirls were killed on May 23, 2005.

A DOE tester has told a jury that the ABS warning light was working on a bus two months before it was involved in a fatal collision in which five Meath schoolgirls were killed.

Up to 7,000 shop jobs could be lost if the growth in out-of-town centres isn’t halted, small retailers in the North warned today.

Senior civil servants were asked to help the Northern Ireland Office give as positive a response as possible to issues raised by the Rev Ian Paisley’s son during devolution negotiations before a key political deadline, it emerged today.

More than 250 taxi drivers are threatening to blockade Stormont as new regulations governing cabbies go before the Assembly.

Legislation to improve taxi services in the North and make it easier to clamp down on illegal taxiing has been introduced by the North's Environment Minister Arlene Foster.

Stormont minister Peter Robinson will today reveal his first budget and plans for a review to make domestic rates fairer.

The age at which young people begin driving on the North’s roads was challenged by the Presbyterian Moderator today.

The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has slammed the new €70 fee on trainee teachers by the Department of Education & Science.

The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has condemned reports that scores of college students entitled to grant assistance may have been wrongly refused by the Department of Education.

People in their teens and 20s are worst at wearing seatbelts when travelling as passengers in the back seat of cars in the North, it was revealed today.

A businessman who ploughed up part of an internationally protected nature reserve in Northern Ireland was fined £3,000 (€4,379) today.

Five zebra mussels have been detected on the hull of a boat in the North just months after the harmful shell fish reappeared there, it emerged today.

The number of children killed or seriously injured on Northern Ireland’s roads fell by 12% last year, according to figures published today.

A controversial shock Northern Ireland TV road safety advertisement should be broadcast “again and again” a coroner said today at the inquest into the death of a car passenger killed in a drink driving crash.

Taxi drivers tried to make peace with the British government today after blockading Belfast city centre over a road safety advertising campaign.

Landfill sites in Northern Ireland permitted to close without proper monitoring are presenting a serious threat to public health, it was claimed today.

Confidential Government documents have been found in an illegal dump in Northern Ireland, it was claimed today.

A NEW government unit has been set up in the North up to crack a multi-million pound illegal dumping racket by criminal gangs from the Republic.

A quarter of all drivers and motorbike riders killed on Northern Ireland’s roads last year, and tested for drugs, were positive, it was disclosed today.

Plans are underway to tighten the law on the keeping of dangerous wild animals in Northern Ireland.

Security at America’s nuclear weapons labs is so lax that the buildings have repeatedly failed drills in which mock terrorists captured radioactive material and escaped, according to an article in Vanity Fair magazine.

Security at America’s nuclear weapons labs is so lax that the facilities have repeatedly failed drills in which mock terrorists captured radioactive material and escaped, according to an article in Vanity Fair magazine.

Middlesbrough boss Steve McClaren will lead a club delegation tomorrow to appeal against a decision to refuse Brazilian Juninho a work permit.

Middlesbrough have completed the signing of Geremi on a year's loan from Real Madrid, subject to a successful work permit application.

The Northern Ireland Department of Environment could soon be in breach of European law because of its failure to identify special conservation areas in Northern Ireland.