Ireland could potentially export as much energy as we consume ourselves as part of the Government's strategy for Renewable Energy 2012 - 2020, it was claimed today.

Plans were revealed today for the development of a national wave energy test site off Annagh Head, west of Belmullet, Co. Mayo.

A RECENT visit to the magnificent Dingle Peninsula, on a day when there was a heavy swell in the Atlantic, illustrated yet again the sheer power of the waves that crashed into the jagged coastline.

ONE kilometre off the Connemara coast, not far from Spiddal, a rather innocuous looking device is floating in the choppy waters.