The owner of Fr Ted Crilly’s parochial house has hit out at fresh Government plans to construct visitor facilities at Mullaghmore in the Burren.

UP to 2,000 coastal jobs and a potential €150 million in exports are on hold due to the Government’s slow processing of 600 aquaculture licences, according to the Irish Shellfish Association.

LOVERS of Irish heritage will rightly be dismayed at the severity of cutbacks in projects ranging from the upkeep of nationally important buildings to research on landscape and waterways under threat from invasive species.

BUDGET cuts will have detrimental effects on our national heritage and close many small enterprises that are dependent on it, according to the Heritage Council.

COILLTE has denied it is being held to ransom for millions of euro in lost revenue by a small mollusc.