THERE’S good news on the wildlife front; BirdWatch Ireland has announced that terns nested very successfully on the east coast this summer. The numbers breeding ‘are at an all-time high’, says tern expert Dr Steve Newton.

THREE separate investigations have begun into what appears to have been a freak accident that claimed the life of a three-year-old boy at Drogheda Port yesterday.

A three-year-old boy has died following an incident in county Louth.

The Drogheda Port company has today been given the go-ahead to develop Bremore Harbour in Balbriggan, at a cost of around €210 million.