Eighteen people were treated after a toxic gas leak on a ship docked at a Northern Ireland harbour.

THE Department of Defence has ordered an environmental air and soil analysis at the site of the naval base in Haulbowline in Cork harbour to investigate if there’s any threat to sailors from hazardous waste buried in the area.

The head of the Health and Safety Authority says that the number of deaths and serious injury from farm accidents here is tragic.

Profits at infrastructure services company Jarvis rose 37% to €89.2m in the financial year covering the Potters Bar train disaster, it emerged today.

Health and Safety officials are carrying out an investigation into the death of a builder near Castleisland in Co Kerry.