Taxpayers will have to compensate the operators of the new M3 motorway if the number of motorists using the road falls below agreed targets, it has emerged.

THE Green Party is asking members for feedback on the Lisbon Treaty.

Tara campaigners are to give money away to members of the public at noon tomorrow, outside the new Department of Finance offices on Baggot Street.

One of the reasons we have a silly season is because media decides we’re going to have it. They send the angry brigade on vacation. If Joe Duffy and Eamon Dunphy go on holiday, what are you left with? Complaints about the weather and a safety zone for Steve Staunton.

IRELAND is facing multi-million euro fines from the European Union from this autumn for a raft of environmental failures such as contaminated water.

THE Green party decision to become junior partners government is a massive gamble, but one that had to be taken.

PLANNING affects all our lives, be it for cities, towns, road, rail or other infrastructure. At its best it can be exciting and inclusive, at its worst it can be a disaster.

THE recent announcement by Environment Minister Dick Roche that the tolled M3 motorway will proceed is probably one of the worst planning decisions ever made by an Irish Minister for the Environment.