From Irish banks exposed to bad loans and the slow process to redirect resources, Kyran Fitzgerald writes on the climate challenges identified by a fascinating conference

New Galway hurling manager Shane O’Neill has added Fergal Healy to his management team as they step up their preparations for the new season.

Former Galway hurler David Forde has joined new manager Shane O’Neill’s backroom team — as a selector.

The Clare senior footballers will be without their two All-Star nominees next season as captain Gary Brennan has joined Jamie Malone in opting out of the squad.

New Galway hurling manager Shane O’Neill will meet the players for the first time this evening and says everyone will be starting with a clean slate.

After a day of heightened tensions and rhetoric between Downing St and the EU, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar warned last night a deal is not likely.

Located in the middle of a triangle formed by the main roads linking Tipperary Town, Cahir and Cashel, a 146-acre dairy holding is perfectly located in terms of today’s agricultural land market.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will make the announcement at the UN Climate Summit later.

Half of all Irish Greyhound Board sponsorship funds will now be ringfenced for a ‘care fund’ established for the wellbeing of greyhounds.

JAMES Lovelock, one of the great thinkers, scientists, and environmentalists, will be 100 today.

Ireland remains "completely off course" to achieve its 2020 and 2030 climate change targets, the Climate Change Advisory Council has warned.

Further significant rises will be necessary over the coming decade to tackle climate change linked to carbon dioxide, an advisory panel added.

Campaigning for animal protection, in Ireland as elsewhere, can be heartbreaking and frustrating especially when one considers the enormity of the challenge: Extremely cruel practices have been around for a long time and their very endurance and longevity is often posited as a reason for allowing them to continue.

Government departments will be forced to pay out of their own pockets if they fail to hit specific multi-year environmental targets, potentially putting other services at risk if they continue to ignore the climate crisis.

42% of the workforce are dissatisfied with their career, according to a new employee survey.

We hear so much about climate change and the biodiversity crisis. We’ve seen the mass protests and listened to the scientists.

Talks between lawyers for former La Stampa restaurant owner and those for a bank and a receiver have achieved a "conditional basis for a settlement" of the dispute between them, the High Court has heard.

Former La Stampa restaurant owner, Louis Murray, told the High Court he had "never been confronted by such a thug" as the receiver who took control of his Dawson Street, Dublin, business.

The owner of the former "La Stampa" restaurant in Dublin's Dawson Street, Louis Murray, was "terrified and confused" to find a bank had appointed a receiver to sell the asset just days after he believed he had entered into an agreement for the consensual sale of the property, the High Court heard.

Director of environmental group Friends of the Earth Oisin Coghlan outlines five tests for the new all-of-government climate plan.

Ireland is the second country in the world to declare a ‘climate emergency’, but the Government must face up to promoting potentially unpopular hikes in carbon taxes, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

Economist John Fitzgerald has said that the Government should “go back and look at the broadband plan again.”

Tax-efficient approaches to rewarding farm labour can help retain workers, says Declan McEvoy, head of tax with ifac.

The victim of an alleged IRA man who raped two teenage boys at a “republican safe house” two decades ago said his dream life was in “tatters” from the moment the man entered his house.

A jury has found an alleged IRA member guilty of raping two teenage boys at a “republican safe house” two decades ago.

An alleged IRA man accused of raping two teenage boys in a Republican safe house told one of them they would be “found on a border road” if they informed anyone of the alleged rape, a jury has heard.

A short story I read a few months ago postulated the trains are still running to Auschwitz. Fantasy, of course, but does anyone believe that genocidal racism died with the Third Reich?

The search for the missing plane taking Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala to his new team in Wales was called off for the night last night with authorities not expecting to find any survivors in the English Channel.

IF EVER there was a field sport so poetic that words can only but strive to do it justice, it is hurling and its proponents, the Cúchulains of Croker, modern representation of our mythical heroes.

Dubbed ‘the voice of Cork’, he started collecting Cork folk songs in the late 1960s and early ’70s when it was neither fashionable nor profitable.

The Climate Change Advisory Council will spend the next six months considering the economic effects on agriculture of measures needed to move the sector onto a sustainable path of dealing with climate change challenges.

Part two of our look at the implications for rural life and for farming of the likely measures to reduce greenhouse gases

The country is “completely off course” in its efforts to meet climate change goals, and the gulf between these targets and Ireland’s carbon emissions is growing year on year, according to a scathing report by the State’s climate change watchdog.

Our cherished identity is blown to the four winds if we remain wedded to the fossil fuel industry, writes Victoria White.

Our cherished identity is blown to the four winds if we remain wedded to the fossil fuel industry, writes Victoria White.

A 91.6-acre non-residential farm in South Tipperary was sold at public auction last week,

A poem about the pub’s social importance to rural Ireland is being broadcast to Tube passengers in London this St Patrick’s Day.

Farmers have welcomed Agriculture Minster Michael Creed’s fodder transport scheme for livestock farmers in the west and northwest.

Motorists are facing a whole new set of road charges to make up for the loss of revenue from taxes on petrol and diesel, as the gradual shift towards electric vehicles takes place.

Ireland is set to travel a bumpy — and very expensive — road in the journey to meet its clean energy and carbon emission reduction targets, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Raising taxes on petrol, diesel, and home-heating fuels, plus a complete ban on the burning of coal and peat, are urgently needed to help cut carbon emissions, the Climate Change Advisory Council has warned.

Farmers should be taxed on greenhouse gas emissions and all state subsidies for peat extraction should end, the Citizens’ Assembly will tell the Government as part of its final report on tackling climate change.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has assumed the mantle of our national conscience — in environmental matters at least. Whether we take any notice remains to be seen.