The temporary release of their daughter’s killer has left her family hurt and angry, writes Liz Dunphy.

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

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council have said that the orange water at Sandycove Beach today is a naturally occurring micro-alga.

The peak is expected on Thursday.

The Government will publish its plan on how to adapt to the effects of climate change later.

Local authorities are to enforce a ‘sunshine tax’ rule for businesses placing tables and chairs outside food and drink premises, writes Christy Parker.

Local authorities are to enforce a ‘sunshine tax’ rule for businesses placing tables and chairs outside food and drink premises.

RARELY is a book so engrossing and pacey that it makes me miss my train stop. But such is the case with BBC Newsnight reporter John Sweeney’s first thriller, Cold. 

Post-Carbon Ireland, the initiative launched by a group of academics on February 12, has received replies from all contacted political parties except RENUA Ireland.

The company that operates the five-star Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin last year increased its operating profits by 13.5% to €37,117.

The HSE is paying millions to homecare providers but the sector remains unregulated, leaving thousands of elderly people at risk of poor quality care, abuse and medication errors, an expert in quality healthcare compliance has warned.

Gerard Ryan of the Church of Scientology’s Mission of Dublin makes so many factual errors in his letter ( Letters, February 4) denouncing me. He writes: “Mr Sweeney’s false claims were put to the Supreme Court in the UK in 2013.” Not true.

It was chaotic business as usual at University Hospital Limerick’s emergency department yesterday.

Contrary to what John Sweeney claims ( ‘Why Scientology is so alien to me’, February 3) the core teachings (not beliefs) of Scientology are contained in the 18 basic books and 15 audio lecture series that constitute the foundations of our religion. 

Tributes have been paid to three members of the same family killed in the Glasgow bin lorry disaster. 

The Christmas spirit is alive and well in Cork city, where an 11-year-old boy from Fermoy spent most of his Christmas budget to buy gifts for a homeless woman's children.

The Christmas spirit is alive and well in Cork city, where an 11-year-old boy from Fermoy spent most of his Christmas budget to buy gifts for a homeless woman’s children.

The stars of the RTÉ show The Shelbourne last year helped the company that manages the five-star Dublin hotel return to profit.

Hail, rain, or snow climate change is on the way, so says a RTÉ series covering our fascinating relationship with the weather, says Jonathan deBurca Butler.

The five-star Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, increased its operating profits by 44% to €4.5m in 2012.

Pressure is mounting on the Government to produce a workable plan to tackle greenhouse gas emissions following the latest warning from experts that a major shift in attitudes and practices is needed to avoid catastrophic climate change.

The ‘Prime Time’ debate on climate change set out to discuss solutions, not the existence of the problem, says Donogh Diamond.

IT’S good to know our national broadcaster takes nothing at face value. They don’t just swallow the testimony of the thousands of leading scientists who have contributed to the work of the International Panel on Climate Change.

Farmers have expressed fears that panic reaction to the latest climate change report will place an unfair burden on agriculture to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

It’s definitely a novel way to spend a week off. Today FM broadcaster Matt Cooper is in North Korea as part of documentary crew covering a basketball game stuffed with former NBA stars, and coinciding with the birthday of leader Kim Jong-un.

Many parts of the country are counting the cost of weeks of stormy weather, but Met Éireann has said the worst is over.

The average fine meted out by the courts for breaches of environmental law such as polluting rivers, ignoring the terms of waste licences, and illegally dumping waste, is a mere €10,000.

The number and size of fines don’t do enough to deter, reports Claire O’Sullivan.

Decoupling food production from hydrocarbons is vital to our survival. John Sweeney considers a book that suggests we look to the sun for an alternative source of energy

We have a seven-year window to tackle the climate crisis if we are to avoid some of its worst consequences.

Sometimes it’s very hard to see the wood from the trees, and in a society — and a world — struggling to come to terms with frightening unemployment figures, falling incomes, globalisation, and lives corralled by unmanageable debt, that, naturally, may be even more difficult.

The Environment Minister's new Climate Change Bill has been described as 'toothless' by experts.

If you travel to Knock you might be in search of a miracle — just don’t expect any good weather.

SATURDAY

A TEENAGER killed in front of horrified shoppers at the St Stephen’s Day sales died from a “single stab wound to the heart”, police said last night.

PRE-tax losses at the company that manages the luxurious five-star Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin increased threefold to €7.6 million last year, new accounts show.

Official jobless figures showing almost half a million people are out of work are too low, an economic think-tank has warned today.

A carpenter in Britain who killed two ex-girlfriends and threw their mutilated bodies into canals faces spending the rest of his life behind bars.

A FORMER top model was decapitated and “fed to the fish” by her boyfriend, the Old Bailey has heard.

THE five-star Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin made a pre-tax loss of €156 million in 2008 after the value of the property was written down by €155m.

THE cold spell may be a direct result of a natural shift of the Jet Stream which normally brings mild weather to Irish shores, climate experts have said.

THE company that operates the five-star Shelbourne hotel in Dublin last year recorded pre-tax losses of €2.89 million, new accounts show.