AN early warning plan is being drawn up in Bandon so the town will never again suffer the millions of euro of damage that it did last November.

A SERIOUS blow was dealt to social housing last night with the decision by the Government to cut funds for those most desperate for homes by at least €140 million.

America’s influential Smithsonian Institute has included the Hill of Tara in a list of must-see endangered sites, it was revealed today.

CORK County Council is to urge An Bord Pleanála to reject Indaver’s plans to build incinerators in Ringaskiddy capable of burning 300,000 tonnes per annum of municipal and hazardous waste.

THE Government has been accused of hiding the problem of toxic waste buried at the Irish steel site in Cork harbour because they did not want to pay the high cost of the clean up operation.

THE average man earning the average wage will have to bear an above-average share of the burden from Wednesday’s budget.

The Minister for the Environment has said he will respond shortly to a warning from the European Commission on the building of the M3 motorway in Meath.