IODINE tablets will not be reissued to households, Health Minister Mary Harney said yesterday.

MIRACULOUSLY, no one was injured when barrels of concentrated sulphuric acid yesterday fell off the back of a lorry near the heart of Ireland’s chemical complex and just after the morning rush hour.

MIRACULOUSLY, no one was injured when barrels of concentrated sulphuric acid yesterday fell off the back of a lorry near the heart of Ireland’s chemical complex and just after the morning rush hour.

WE didn’t realise it, but there are two comedians in the White House. The other is Laura Bush.

THE Department of Health has said it is uncertain if it will issue more iodine tablets after tests on the last batch revealed they are still effective despite being due to expire next month.

NON-GOVERNMENT foreign travel by TDs and senators has cost the taxpayer at least €1.25 million since June 2002, figures compiled by the Oireachtas have revealed.

Political Correspondent Fionnán Sheahan assesses Government preparations for a Madrid-style attack in Ireland and finds the public are right to be worried.

CURRENTLY codenamed ‘The Monsignor’, Michael Smith’s nom de guerre won’t be abbreviated to ‘M’ any day soon.

Labour Councillor Nicky Kelly has decided not to challenge the outcome of the General Election in Co Wicklow last year.

The High Court will today decide whether or not the Minister for Health, Micheál Martin, breached the statutory limit on spending when he contested the general election last year in the Cork South Central constituency.

A recount has been called in Wicklow, as Mildred Fox and Nicky Kelly battle it out for the final seat.

Fianna Fail's Dick Roche has been elected with almost 17% of first preference votes in the five-seater Wicklow constituency.

The first result is expected in Co Wicklow just after lunchtime.

Members of the SDLP's youth wing today entered the row over Sellafield claiming that the nuclear power plant threatens lives and livelihoods on both sides of the Irish Sea.

The Minister with responsibility for nuclear energy, Joe Jacob, is to meet young politicians from the North today to discuss the campaign to close Sellafield.

The Irish landscape is set to change over the coming years, following today's government approval for a number of wind and hydro energy plants.

A Norwegian delegation is in Dublin today to discuss its opposition to Sellafield with the Irish Government.

The controversial MOX plant has opened at Sellafield today.

The Government today issued an eleventh-hour plea to Britain to halt this week’s scheduled commissioning of the mixed-oxide plant at the Sellafield nuclear waste reprocessing complex.

The Minister with responsibility for Nuclear Safety has told a public forum on Sellafield that Ireland is determined to have the threat removed once and for all.

The head of safety at British Nuclear Fuels will be among those attending a public forum on Sellafield in Drogheda today.

Plans by the British Government to allow a new MOX plant at Sellafield were today facing two legal challenges brought by Ireland and environmental groups, it has emerged.

Junior Minister Joe Jacob has said the British Government’s decision to allow the manufacture of MOX fuel at Sellafield defies logic.

The Minister for Health has admitted that the country’s health boards do not have a supply of iodine tablets, which are vital in the event of a nuclear disaster.

Fine Gael has called for Junior Minister Joe Jacob to be sacked after he was unable to explain how Ireland would react if it came under attack.

Ireland is urging developing countries not to use nuclear power in order to fuel their economies.

The Government is taking Britain to court over a new plant in the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield.

The Government has been urged to increase fossil fuel taxes as an environmental boost.

Minister of State at the Department of Public Enterprise, Joe Jacob, has announced the largest-ever renewable electricity programme.