ALTHOUGH Ireland currently heads the EU league for environmental crimes, the systematic killing of wild eagles by farmers marks a new low in our country’s despicable environmental record.

WITH Irish children getting less physical exercise (PE) at school than children almost anywhere in Europe, is it any wonder obesity is a major problem here?

IT'S official - we're the hardest workers in the EU. Ireland now tops the EU league for the percentage of its labour force working up to 80 hours a week, more than double the average 37.4-hour week.