The Government may have to pay up €150m for missing its greenhouse gas emissions target.

We are one of the only EU countries in which greenhouse gases are rising and we are likely to miss our 2020 targets, writes Cara Augustenborg.

A report has warned that future flooding events will cost the State more than a billion euro in damages, unless we do more to stop the catastrophic effects of climate change.

The Cabinet was divided over the merits of allowing postal voting after reports of widespread abuse of the system during the 1985 local elections.

The ancient ritual of ‘swan upping’ commences at Sunbury Lock on the River Thames at nine o’clock this morning, writes Richard Collins. 

A severely visually impaired man has claimed his right to vote in secret has been breached by the State’s alleged failure to provide an appropriate mechanism allowing him do so.

At the third attempt, Brendan Howlin has become the Labour leader.

People Before Profit has launched a campaign calling for the new green bin charges to be scrapped.

Vincent Browne marked his return to his TV3 show last night with a bang.

Jobs are being shed at organisations in Co Cork which aid rural development because they still haven’t received funding from central government and there’s fears that many worthy projects will also be put on hold as a result.

Ireland is to receive €200m from Europe to build flood defences across the country.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Tensions are growing between Labour and Fine Gael as the Taoiseach refuses to rule out a November election.

Mairia Cahill's been nominated to contest the Seanad bye-election for the Labour Party.

It was on one level somewhat appropriate that Environment Minister Alan Kelly was absent when the issue of the deplorable state of affairs surrounding the 900 residents who occupy 298 apartments in the Longboat Quay development was raised in the Dáil.

The Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly has announced a nationwide extension of the ban on smoky coal.

The Government has been accused of an “inexcusable” lack of leadership after it emerged that there are 2,600 vacant units across the country in council ownership, despite a mounting homelessness crisis.

Enda Kenny’s two-day visit to Atlanta cost us €4,300 for a chauffeur, while Europe Minister Dara Murphy commandeered a squad car, and the time and services of two gardaí, to drive him 214 miles to Dublin Airport, writes Shaun Connolly

The former minister who set up Irish Water has declared that the company overseeing water charges is not a mess and he only did what was required during the bailout.

Since 1978 I have dealt extensively with both Cork City and Cork County Councils, writes Michael O’Flynn.

Former Lord Mayor Jim Corr has deep-seated concerns about the establishment of a super council for Cork city and county.

A meeting of members of the Irish Property Owners Association (IPOA) in Cork in recent days drew a capacity attendance and denounced a number of government measures. We heard that rent control or certainty cannot be reintroduced in Ireland as a viable solution to the housing situation.

Babs Keating and Eddie Keher last night paid their respects to the Tipperary hurling great Jimmy Doyle who passed away yesterday.

The Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly has announced a review of local government boundaries in four areas.

LEAD, just like asbestos, was freely used in buildings some decades ago. Now that it has been identified as a health threat, efforts must be made to remove it, or at the very least reduce the impact it might have.

Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly has described today as “a fantastic day” and said it was “amazing” that Ireland is becoming the first country to approve same-sex marriage by referendum.

There are some solid ideas on dealing with the crisis in mortgage arrears but more work is needed, writes Ross Maguire.

Last week’s collective confirmation of major development projects for Cork gave a welcome fillip to everyone in the city, writes Owen O’Callaghan MD, O’Callaghan Properties 

The response by Minister for the Environment, Alan Kelly, to the magnificent turnout at the water charges protest in Dublin, has done much to galvanise the movement.

Around €250m in funding is being announced as part of the Leader element of the Rural Development Programme.

AS ever more people, individuals and families, come to depend on the rental market for their housing needs it is appropriate that some measures are being prepared to offer some sort of stability and security to tenants.

AS ever more people, individuals and families, come to depend on the rental market for their housing needs it is appropriate that some measures are being prepared to offer some sort of stability and security to tenants.

The Minister for the Environment has denied that the water metering programme has been scaled back, saying it is ahead of schedule.

Paddy Burns’s letter (Irish Examiner, February 13), ‘Bishops should open churches to homeless’, suggests that homelessness would be solved if people bedded-down on church floors, gawking up at rich frescoes of St Raphael, marble columns, and ornate ceilings, amid the gold leaf and marble of the country’s stunning and sacred churches, while leaving behind empty beer cans and drug paraphernalia.

There will be a lot of Irish folks swotting up on their cricket knowledge after

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Farmers have again been warned they may lose EU grants if the number of farm deaths does not improve.