Up to €35m annually and around 190 jobs could be generated from Cork County Council’s plan to transform Spike Island into a tourist attraction

Environmental campaigners aboard a Greenpeace-led protest which intercepted two nuclear freighters in the Irish Sea tonight declared: “The fight must go on.”

British Nuclear Fuels today appealed to Greenpeace-led environmental activists to protest in a “safe and responsible manner” after two ships carrying radioactive material entered the Irish Sea.