A waste disposal company and its director, Louis Moriarty, have been fined a total of €60,000 at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today for illegal dumping in Co Wicklow.

A prominent Dublin waste contractor has been fined €10,000 at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for unauthorised "recovery" of inert waste at an illegal dump in Co. Wicklow in the late 1990s.

ARTS MINISTER John O’Donoghue posed for pictures this weekend with the same property developer from whom Taoiseach Bertie Ahern tried to distance himself last year.

THE owners of the land used as an illegal dump in Co Wicklow face a multi-million clean up bill after a landmark High Court decision yesterday.