ENVIRONMENT Minister Martin Cullen will be remembered for two things: he has squandered more than €50m of taxpayers’ money attempting to impose a defective voting system on a population who did not want it.

AN attempt by residents of a Co Cork town to mount a legal challenge aimed at preventing the construction of Ireland’s first hazardous waste incinerator will be made in the High Court today.

THE decision by An Bord Pleanála to give the go-ahead for Indaver’s toxic waste incinerator on the shores of Cork harbour must spell the end of the Bord as a credible planning body.

ON a recent vacation home to our historic home of Cork, my wife and I were startled to see that WMD (weapons of mass deception) were to be found lining the sidewalks of Patrick Street excellently disguised as industrial site lighting.