PEOPLE yesterday queued to place ribbons on a special Christmas tree in Limerick city to remember loved ones who have died.

GLOBAL warming as detailed by the recent reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has potentially serious consequences and poses a very real challenge to each one of us in this country and internationally.

THE vast majority of climate scientists — 2,500 of them — agree that global warming is upon us, at least partly due to the release of CO2 into the atmosphere due to our consumption of energy which has been produced mainly by the burning of fossil fuels since the start of the industrial revolution.

MOT charges in the North could be increased after test centres failed to reach targets despite investing £57m (€82.2m) on new equipment, a report revealed today.

ON September 25, the Irish Examiner ran an article by Ian O’Sullivan titled: “Samantha kicks off battle against polio.”