Time stuck in “aggravated” traffic jams in the greater Dublin area alone is costing the economy €350m a year — and that could rise to €2bn per year within 15 years.

Canadian officials defended the start of the annual seal hunt as a financial necessity for isolated communities, as sealers faced pressure from a possible European Union ban.

AN HISTORIC collection of regimental silver with strong links to North Cork was handed over to the army yesterday.

THE final leg of Canada’s contentious seal hunt moved to the ice floes off north-eastern Newfoundland and Labrador yesterday, with sealers expected to slaughter a further 234,000 harp seal pups in one day.

Animal-rights activists said their vehicle carrying foreign journalists was run off the road today as they were making their way to their helicopter to document the country’s contentious seal hunt.

THOUSANDS of sealers armed with clubs, rifles and spears have descended on the ice floes off eastern Canada for the world’s largest seal hunt.

Thousands of sealers armed with clubs, rifles and spears have descended on the ice floes off eastern Canada for the world’s largest seal hunt.