Ireland women’s captain Ciara Griffin and Sevens star Louise Galvin have welcomed their appointments to the board of Rugby Players Ireland following the representative body’s expansion of its executive committee to reflect its growing remit in the Irish professional rugby.

Rugby Players Ireland has stressed its commitment to supporting Gerbrandt Grobler through the current furore surrounding his served two-year suspension for doping.

Britain’s government should stop using a discredited measure of inflation for selling index-linked bonds which is costing taxpayers billions a year, an official review said yesterday.

Telecoms giant BT has offered a near three year pay deal to thousands of its staff, saying it would provide wage stability until early 2017.

We read with concern your editorial (May 22) which suggests, following the publication of the Radiological Protection Institute’s (RPI) report on a “low risk” to Ireland from a UK new nuclear programme, now is the time to reconsider nuclear power in Ireland.

The report from the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland (RPI) that concluded British plans to build up to eight nuclear power plants pose only a “very low” risk to Ireland is welcome and reassuring.

The UK experienced its first period of deflation in almost 50 years in March, official figures revealed today.

Figures are today set to reveal the measure of inflation used in wage negotiations turned negative in the UK for the first time since 1960 last month.

A smaller-than-expected drop in the British inflation rate today failed to ease fears that the UK could soon be in the grip of deflation.

A house in Co Tipperary has been found to contain 45 times the acceptable level of the cancer-causing gas radon.

Better-than-expected inflation figures were overshadowed today when a separate measure used to determine pay rises and pensions hit an eight-year high.

FIREFIGHTERS are ill-equipped and insufficiently trained to deal with a major nuclear disaster, the National Firefighters Committee said yesterday.

Charges have been brought by the Radiological Protection Institute against five Kerry companies.

AN accident at Sellafield nuclear station would contaminate Ireland’s environment but the country would not suffer deaths and devastation on the scale of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, it was claimed last night.

The cost of cigarettes has more than tripled during the past 15 years while the price of televisions and computers has fallen by 74%, UK research shows today.

THE Environmental Protection Agency and the Radiological Protection Institute have given a clean bill of health to the Cork industrial site ravaged by fire last week.