Boil water notices issued in certain areas could increase the risk from the potentially carcinogenic chemicals, according to Friends of the Irish Environment (FOIE).

A European Commission investigation into the impact of sea lice on salmon farms is to be reopened.

The Department of Agriculture has strongly denied claims by environmental and heritage groups that illegal turf-cutting on nine of the country’s 53 protected bogs is going unchallenged.

THE environmental lobby group that complained to the European Commission about the toxic dump in Cork Harbour fears the Government is ignoring vast areas of contamination in its long-awaited €40 million clean-up of the site.

Two Government ministers have given their backing to an international blackout aimed at saving energy by plunging the country into darkness.