Members of the public made almost 800 complaints about industrial and waste facilities to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last year, with more than half of these relating to bad smells and odours.

Eight companies have been placed on a watchlist by the environmental watchdog and could ultimately lose their licence if they continue to damage the environment.

LAST year’s Common Agricultural Policy payments were sweet for the EU’s big sugar companies.

FARMING organisations have objected to the decision by the Department of Agriculture to publish the name and home town of farmers who received payments under the Common Agricultural Policy.

GLANBIA announced yesterday that it had completed the sale of its pigmeat business to a management team for €35 million.