The remaining parts of the Mr Binman group were bought from the receiver yesterday by Quality Recycling in a move that it is hoped will secure over 100 jobs.

A man is being treated for serious injuries at a Co. Limerick hospital after he was involved in a workplace accident.

A FARMER has claimed that a number of in-calf cows face starvation on an island off the south-west coast if a dispute over weight restrictions on a cable car is not quickly resolved.

BANK of Scotland has appointed joint receivers to the Mr Binman group of waste collection companies employing more than 330 people across Munster, with another 200 jobs indirectly dependent on them.

A receiver has been appointed to the waste collection group Mr Binman.

SIX investors have indicated a serious interest in investing in the waste collection company Mr Binman, a development which might help ensure its survival as a major employer in Munster, the High Court heard yesterday.

WORKERS at collection and recycling firm Mr Binman are “shocked and worried” to have learned the company has gone into examinership.

WASTE collection and recycling firm Mr Binman last night insisted “the company continues to trade as normal” after the High Court appointed an interim examiner to oversee the firm.

PRISON officers were stunned when a refuse collector handed over a loaded semi-automatic pistol during a security check.

A REFUSE collection firm, at the centre of an industrial dispute for almost nine weeks, has accused trade union SIPTU of trying to use a small minority of workers to “derail” the company.

More than 40 SIPTU members are set to picket a waste-collection company in Co Tipperary as part of a row over pay cuts.

THE first signs of a possible resolution in the dispute between electrical contractors and electricians appeared last night as employers looked set to take their demand for a 10% pay cut in the industry off the table.

A €20m organic waste compost facility has been proposed for Foynes docks.

ONE Fifty One plc and five former senior managers of Mr Binman Ltd, a large Midlands waste company, have all undertaken before the High Court not to use confidential information about Mr Binman’s business which was allegedly wrongly downloaded by one of the managers.

A LEADING waste company has claimed before the High Court that five senior managers who left the company on the same day this month are conspiring with One Fifty One plc to effect a hostile takeover.

A MAN whose fully clothed body was found yesterday in a skip at a Limerick refuse depot may have died violently some time last week.

DOMESTIC waste from the Mid-West is being sent to be burned in the kilns of a Swedish cement plant as part of a major refuse disposal initiative.

THE GREEN Party last night called for an investigation into why thousands of tonnes of recyclable waste are being sent to Sweden to be burned as fuel.

DEFENCE Minister Willie O’Dea yesterday rubbished a court action taken by Limerick’s largest private bin collection company by accusing them of trying to establish a monopoly.