BLAME culture is rife in Ireland, from public liability lawsuits to workplace disagreements.

THE chairwoman of the Office of Public Works has conceded that a €425,000 campaign to raise awareness of flooding did not work.

MET ÉIREANN said while the rainfall which preceded November’s devastating floods in Cork could be expected to occur every 25 years it could not be described as “extraordinary”.

RELATIONS between Dublin City Council and Environment Minister John Gormley over the planned Poolbeg incinerator have worsened as a defiant city manager said the plant was in line with Government policy.

SOME of those worst hit by the recent devastating floods in Cork are due to meet next week to discuss how they can prepare for future similar disasters.

THOUSANDS of people flooded out of their homes in the Republic may never return, it was claimed last night.

SERIOUS errors in the estimated level of waste from commercial premises by Dublin City Council have been highlighted in a report on the operation of a sewage treatment plant in Dublin.

THERE are compelling reasons for granting powers to the Oireachtas Committee on the Environment to urge witnesses to attend its hearings.

A high-level group of TDs are to travel to Britain’s Sellafield nuclear plant to question bosses at the facility over recent radioactive fuel leaks, it has emerged.

THE National Roads Authority are, according to themselves, the biggest ‘investor’ in Irish archaeology today.

THE electronic voting system in Dáil Éireann failed after being infected by a computer virus this year, it emerged yesterday, prompting fears over the security of the nationwide system for next year's elections.

IN REACTION terms, the words ‘An Taisce’ have the same effect on some rural TDs as the words ‘Mick McCarthy’ have on Roy Keane.