The US company behind a controversial planned incinerator for Dublin has asked for face-to-face talks with the Taoiseach, it emerged today.

LOCAL elections are treated “with derision” by most political parties because of the lack of power at city, county and town council level, a new study has found.

For centuries, Dutch windmills have pumped water out of the low-lying country, and old-fashioned wooden mills are as closely linked with the Netherlands’ international image as its dikes and bikes.