THREE tragedies. Three daughters lost. Three families looking for answers.

FARMERS in Ireland are being burdened with unfair and excessive water charges, the Irish Farmers Association has told the European Commission.

THE EU has been creating schemes which are not being implemented as expected. In the case of the farmers’ early retirement scheme, changes were made to the terms and conditions while the EU Commission and the Department of Agriculture each lays the blame with the other.

IRISH health stores are going to the European Parliament with their battle to retain high dosages of vitamins and minerals on their shelves.

I WOULD like to suggest to the NRA and Meath County Council that the report of the EU Petitions Committee is not as they claim: an EU confirmation “that they have behaved entirely properly throughout this process”. They are twisting the words to suit themselves.

IRISH farmers have to comply with high standards of protection of the environment.

Hundreds of environmentalists took to Dublin’s streets today, demanding a halt to construction of the controversial M3 motorway through the ancient Hill of Tara.

THE Government is due to be roundly condemned by the European Parliament for its failures to provide clean water and modern waste management and for deciding to locate the new M3 motorway so close to Tara.

EU officials have called on the Government to halt work on part of the M3 motorway after concern was expressed about the impact on newly discovered ruins at the Hill of Tara, it emerged today.

OPPONENTS of water fluoridation have slammed the reduction in the amount of fluoride being put into our supplies as “window-dressing” and insufficient to stave off health risks.

The Government's environmental record was today described as "humiliating" following a fact-finding mission from European Parliament's Petitions Committee.

THE European Parliament’s Petitions Committee will visit west Limerick today to investigate the region’s 20 years of farm livestock health problems.

A committee of MEPs is due to visit Ireland today to examine a number of issues that have been raised by members of the public.

A GROUP awaiting a Bord Pleanála ruling on a controversial super-quarry is poised to launch an EU campaign to halt quarrying in their area.

A DELEGATION from the European Commission is to travel to Dublin next month to inspect the proposed site for an incinerator at Poolbeg.

MEMBERS of the European Parliament are to visit a farm in Kilkenny where cattle are getting mysterious illnesses and trees are dying.

A European court will today investigate the 15-year plight of a Co Kilkenny farmer who claims environmental pollution is causing his livestock to become sick and killing trees on his land.

A Co Kilkenny farmer is bringing a 15-year battle against mystery pollution on his farm to a Brussels parliamentary committee.

ALUMINIUM levels recorded in one of the country’s busiest tourist cities are 136 times above EU limits.

THE families of taxi drivers have taken their case for compensation to the European Parliament.