With licences being secured and sought to mechanically harvest seaweed in Bantry Bay and parts of the west coast residents fear the damage may be irreparable, writes Louise Roseingrave.

There has been a fish kill on the Castletown River near Dundalk in Co Louth.

Meath County Council has been fined €1,000 and ordered to pay over €2,500 in costs and expenses for polluting a part of the river Boyne.

A crackdown is underway to combat large scale poaching from lakes in the north east of the country, it was confirmed today.

ENVIRONMENTAL officers say they are dealing with an “ecological disaster” after thousands of fish were killed by soaring temperatures at a lake in Co Wexford.