The building of a new Magilligan Prison at a cost of around £200m (€222.5m) moved a step closer today with the appointment of consultants to manage the design and building programme.

A DEPARTMENT of Defence report on the possible impacts of Haulbowline Island’s toxic waste on the Irish naval headquarters in Cork Harbour will be made public next week.

A NEW probe into “alarming” cancer clusters around Cork harbour’s toxic disaster site was demanded last night amid fears the official report will be a “whitewash”.

BRITISH civil engineering consultancy firm White Young Green (WYG), which employs about 700 people in its Irish operations, has reported a strong set of full-year results for the 12 months to the end of June, including a 31% rise in pre-tax profits to £21 million (€26.5m).

WHITE Young Green (WYG), the civil engineering consultancy group with its headquarters in Leeds, is open to making further acquisitions in the Irish market — having significantly expanded its operations here over the past year.

WHITE Young Green (WYG), the British headquartered civil engineering consultancy group, has said that its Irish operations contributed strongly to the group’s interim results for the six months to the end of December.