The Environment Minister Martin Cullen has told a major conference in Dublin that there is no justification, economic or environmental, for the continuation of operations at the Sellafield Nuclear Plant.

Bertie Ahern today made a courtesy call to the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior, currently docked in Dublin ahead of the arrival in the Irish Sea of a double shipment of nuclear waste material.

Greenpeace is holding an open day for the public on board its vessel the rainbow warrior in Dublin today.

A FIRE on board a nuclear ship due to enter the Irish Sea in the next fortnight could release a plutonium cloud that would causes thousands of cancer cases, Greenpeace has warned.

Marine Minister Dermot Ahern has visited the Rainbow Warrior and held talks with Greenpeace's Sellafield campaign leaders.

The environmental group Greenpeace has brought its Rainbow Warrior vessel to Dublin to highlight its opposition to a shipment of nuclear fuel which is on its way to Sellafield.