Bertie Ahern today made a courtesy call to the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior, currently docked in Dublin ahead of the arrival in the Irish Sea of a double shipment of nuclear waste material.

Greenpeace was today applying to Britain's High Court to prevent a consignment of weapons-usable plutonium being shipped from Japan to the UK.

Members of the SDLP's youth wing today entered the row over Sellafield claiming that the nuclear power plant threatens lives and livelihoods on both sides of the Irish Sea.

The Government today issued an eleventh-hour plea to Britain to halt this week’s scheduled commissioning of the mixed-oxide plant at the Sellafield nuclear waste reprocessing complex.

The Government was today launching legal action against the United Kingdom over plans for a controversial new reprocessing plant at Sellafield.

The Labour leader, Ruairi Quinn has said Ireland should help Britain with the cost of closing down the Sellafield reprocessing plant.

Plans by the British Government to allow a new MOX plant at Sellafield were today facing two legal challenges brought by Ireland and environmental groups, it has emerged.

The British Government has given the go-ahead for the manufacture of mixed oxide fuel (MOX) in the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria.