A toxin found in water supplying 400,000 people can cause miscarriages as well as cancer, environment campaigner, Erin Brockovich has warned her “Irish cousins”.

The company behind the construction of the Berkeley apartment complex where six Irish students died in a balcony collapse last month has filed for a restraining order against the district attorney investigating the tragedy.

Ireland must brace itself for a dementia tsunami, the final Berkeley funeral is to take place today, Joe Schmidt has revealed the preliminary World Cup squad and how Samsung has a clear edge on its competitors.  Here’s this morning’s irishexaminer.com catch-up.

US activist Erin Brockovich has offered her assistance to the victims of last week’s balcony collapse in Berkeley and their families.

Tune into TV3 at 10pm tonight for The People's Debate with Vincent Browne. The motion for debate tonight is “The liberation of women in Ireland has yet to be accomplished."

The iconic litigator, Erin Brockovich, was recently arrested for drunkenly handling a boat. Eliza Shapiro reports on the unglamorous trouble behind her

When a bunch of US girls began twitching, theories differed about the cause, from mass hallucinations to toxins, writes Nancy Haas

A GROUP of young British people who blame their birth defects on their mothers’ exposure to “an atmospheric soup of toxic materials” have won a landmark ruling that a council was negligent in its reclamation of an old steelworks site.

Erin Brockovich, the campaigner immortalised in an Oscar-winning film, today urged oil giant Shell to reroute a controversial gas pipeline in the west of Ireland.

MORE than 50 events are planned nationwide as part of Bord Bia’s National Organic Week (September 15-21).

THE Minister for the Environment will meet residents of Cork harbour tonight to discuss the Haulbowline toxic dump scandal.

ERIN Brockovich grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, the youngest child of an industrial engineer and a journalist.

ARGUABLY the most toxic substance found at the former Irish Steel site in Cork is chromium 6, a deadly chemical which became the focus of a multi-million dollar lawsuit in America and later the subject of an Oscar-winning film.

Actress Julia Roberts has been honoured in the US for her contribution to the film industry.

Julia Roberts' Broadway debut in Three Days Of Rain has sparked a buying frenzy, causing ticket websites to crash shortly after seats went on sale on Saturday.

Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts remains the highest paid woman in Hollywood, according to a new poll.

Movie beauty Julia Roberts has bought a secluded Malibu, California mansion to raise her unborn twins in - away from the paparazzi's scrutiny.

Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts is pregnant with twins, according to reports.

A FORMER employee has sued US environmental crusader and movie subject Erin Brockovich and the head of her law firm for allegedly wiretapping her phone after she filed a sexual harassment complaint against Ms Brockovich’s boss, lawyer Edward Masry.

The legal team of Ed Masry and Erin Brockovich, whose investigations into corporate toxic pollution led to the hit film Erin Brockovich, are working on another case which has aroused Hollywood’s interest.

Julia Roberts' ex-boyfriend Benjamin Bratt says he hated the constant attention he received when he dated her.

The tearful speech from actress Gwyneth Paltrow after winning an Oscar two years ago was named in a survey today as the most memorable moment at an award ceremony.

Julia Roberts is to present an Oscar at this year's Academy Awards.

Julia Roberts could find herself presenting her ex-boyfriend Benjamin Bratt with an Oscar.

The real-life Erin Brockovich is to begin her new career as America's version of Anneka Rice.

A lawyer who tried to extort $310,000 from Erin Brockovich and her boss has been sentenced to four months in jail.

Julia Roberts was given advice by Hilary Swank while she waited to find out if she had won the Best Actress Oscar.

The real life Erin Brockovich will not be in the audience at the Oscars.

Jamie Bell capped an astonishing few months by dancing off with the Best Actor title at lastnight's Baftas.

Tom Hanks has been named the Best Actor in a Drama at the Golden Globes.