More than a third of all household recycling bins are contaminated, the Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment has heard.

Householders are struggling to make meaningful comparisons on waste collection fees because of poor online or phone information from many of the dozens of firms in the market, a Government-backed monitor has warned.

This November’s Hong Kong Open, the final qualifying event for the Dubai World Championship, will be the last with banking group UBS as sponsors.

IRISH language television broadcaster, TG4, will become an independent station from next year.