The city council’s head of environment insists the Lower Lee Flood Relief Scheme is the only solution, writes Eoin English.

Campaigners opposed to OPW flood defence plans in Cork city have expressed concerns about the “dismissal” of 700 submissions on a quay revamp which will include integrated flood defences.

Work on the first flood defences in Cork City could get under way before the end of the year after a €6m quay regeneration project got the green light last night.

Office of Public Works (OPW) plans for walls and embankments — controversial elements in its Cork city flood defence scheme — could cost €76m more than the agency’s published estimate, a report claims.

The Office of Public Works has overestimated the cost of building a tidal barrier in Cork Harbour by at least €200m, which proves the scheme should not be discounted on cost grounds, a new independent report has claimed.

A man who entered the State's witness security programme has lost his appeal over the High Court dismissal of his claims he was treated negligently and that the State failed to live up to its promises to him.

A data transfer case with potentially huge ramifications for EU trade with the US has been referred to Europe's highest court.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin says a tidal barrier proposal by the Save Cork City (SCC) Group as part of its response to the €140m Cork flood defence scheme needs to be re-examined.

WE do not have an exemplary record in long-term planning. 

A TD has criticised the Office of Public Works’ Cork flood defence plan, describing it as a “crude” solution which is too focused on costs.

Theresa May faced claims that the British Government offered a "sweetheart deal" to a Tory-led council in order to scrap an embarrassing 15% tax hike.

A new report claims Ireland’s current agriculture and land use policy is neither ‘climate-smart’ nor sustainable.

Mastitis / SCC Control

Data from the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) shows that there has been a huge increase in milk recording since 2005, the largest annual increase of 11% being in 2011.

GERRY ADAMS’ restatement of Sinn Féin policy earlier this week, that his party would close the Special Criminal Court, seemed, at the time, predictably self-serving and ill-judged.

SINN FÉIN would have preferred not to have to highlight their ill-judged and self-serving campaign to abolish the Special Criminal Court (SCC) just as tit-for-tat gangland murders claimed two victims in Dublin, once again underlining how essential such an option is in our justice system.

WHAT ARE we like that it’s big news in environmental circles this week that the Government is appointing the first Climate Change Advisory Council, asks Victoria White.

Ireland’s huge numbers of cattle and sheep — more than twice the human population — are the country’s single biggest producer of greenhouse gases and make it almost impossible to reach EU targets.

The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by Limerick man John Dundon aimed at delaying his trial for the murder of rugby player Shane Geoghegan almost five years ago.

The Special Criminal Court trial of Brian Rattigan, who is accused of possessing €1m worth of heroin, has heard video-link evidence from a mobile phone forensics expert based in New Zealand.