A ‘dust cloud’ which covered suburban areas on the southside of Limerick city has led to the Environmental Protection Authority investigating an Irish Cement plant at Mungret.

Irish Cement has launched a High Court challenge against an order allowing the compulsory purchase of its lands by the harbour at Foynes, Co Limerick.

Plans by Irish Cement to burn used tyres, instead of coke fossil fuel, at its Limerick plant, have been been deferred.

Shares in cement company CRH are likely to come under pressure today after the company confirmed its premises had been raided by the country’s competition watchdog

Up to 50 of the 75 jobs at the Irish Cement factory at Castlemungret on the outskirts of Limerick City are to go due to a decline in demand for cement.

Group sales at building materials giant CRH are up 4% in the year to date on a like-for-like basis, but the group’s earnings have been dragged back by under-performance in its European operations.

The 135 staff of Musgrave’s Cork chill warehouse will withdraw their services tomorrow.

Production was hit yesterday at two Irish Cement plants as a results of official union-backed pickets at Castlemungret in Co Limerick and Platin in Co Meath.

Up to 100 workers at Irish Cement Ltd have gone on strike.

A NEWLY ordained priest is hoping his life experience as a husband, father and grandfather will give him a greater understanding of his parishioners.

CEMENT giant CRH has accused Goode Concrete of making “scandalous” claims that it and others engaged in anti-competitive practices for decades.

THE High Court has made an order winding up five companies in the Whelan group, one of the largest concrete suppliers in the country, after the directors of the companies yesterday withdrew their petition for examinership. The directors said they “profoundly regretted” that some 120 jobs will be lost.

THE ISEQ Index gained a further 18.07 points ending the day in positive territory. The Dublin exchange was 9,317.48 at the closing bell.

A HUGE dust emission from a Limerick factory damaged hundreds of cars in a number of city suburbs on Thursday night.

PRISON officers and management are to hold last-ditch discussions on Wednesday in a final bid to make a deal on overtime.

THE boundaries of Limerick will have be extended to allow the mid-west capital develop into a prosperous gateway city.

A BUSINESSMAN who claims unlawful practices by one of the country’s largest companies destroyed his livelihood is to seek more than €250 million in compensation.