SEVERAL tonnes of loose peat which poured down a river in north Kerry yesterday caused another road blockage.

THE landslide in Kerry last weekend killed at least 8,000 fish.

EMERGENCY services were yesterday working on the restoration of water supplies to people in a large stretch of north-east Kerry, following a huge landslide at the weekend.

State fisheries experts launched an investigation today after thousands of fish were killed in a mudslide which also cut off roads and threatened water supplies.

A STUDY is being carried out to establish the case of declining salmon stocks in the Shannon river.

A THREE-MILE stretch of the Shannon River near Limerick city has been declared a poaching black-spot.

VISITING anglers from Britain are thought to be responsible for the introduction of a non-native fish which is now threatening wild trout stocks in the Shannon system.

THE giant Aughinish Alumina (AAL) plant on the Shannon Estuary had an unauthorised arrangement with an official of the Shannon Regional Fisheries permitting the company not to report certain breaches of its pollution control licence.

The Department of the Marine is to investigate a secret pollution reporting deal between a factory and a fisheries board.

ANGLERS warned yesterday they will fight any new annual registration and licence fee amid fears new charges were being considered as part of the updating of by-laws on the country’s inland waterways.

A SEWAGE treatment plant in Co Meath is in the spotlight after 4,000 wild brown trout were killed along a three-mile stretch of the River Innynear Oldcastle.

A sewage treatment plant in Co Meath is in the spotlight after one of the biggest fish kills in the region, it emerged tonight.

Up to 4,000 trout are believed to have been killed on the River Inny between Oldcastle in Co Meath and Lough Sheelin in Co Cavan.

The Shannon Regional Fisheries Board has confirmed that it is investigating a significant fish-kill in Co Limerick.

The Fianna Fáil party has selected two candidates to contest the next General Election in the West Limerick constituency.

FISHERIES Minister Pat 'The Cope' Gallagher was called on to save wild salmon in Irish rivers by buying out the licences held by offshore drift fishermen.

TEARS were shed yesterday as members of a small community told how a landfill site has devastated their lives.

THE University of Limerick has backtracked on a deal it made after it announced plans to build a pedestrian bridge on the campus, an anglers group has claimed.

Three firms are facing joint prosecution after a landslide at Derrybrien in Co Galway last year.

THE granting of planning permission for a sewage treatment facility at Shannon Airport was too little, too late, a leading doctor has claimed.

A WIND energy company was blamed yesterday for the landslide in Derrybrien, Co Galway, last October.

THE Shannon Regional Fisheries Board (SRFB) could take legal action against whoever was responsible for the Derrybrien peat landslide in Co Galway, it emerged last night.

THE south Galway community of Derrybrien has renewed its call for a complete halt of the construction of a 60 million wind farm in the Slieve Aughty mountains following yesterday’s landslide, the second this month.