Fianna Fáil parliamentary party chairman Seamus Kirk was confirmed as the party’s European elections candidate for Leinster after fellow TD, Donie Cassidy, pulled out of the internal race.

IF Packie Bonner runs for Fianna Fáil in the European Elections, as is rumoured, it will be the political stroke of the year. And further proof that ‘location, location and location’ is as important in politics as it is in property.

Green Party MEP Nuala Ahern has announced that she will not be seeking re-election in next year’s European Parliament elections.

GREEN Party TD Ciarán Cuffe lacked political cop-on by holding onto shares in unethical companies, his party colleague MEP Patricia McKenna said yesterday.

THE European Parliament recently approved a proposal by Sean Ó Neachtain, MEP, to support the present status of the Irish Box for a period of ten years.

ALUMINIUM levels recorded in one of the country’s busiest tourist cities are 136 times above EU limits.

OBJECTORS to the country’s first household waste incinerator are to continue their fight in the courts after An Bord Pleanála cleared the construction of the facility yesterday.

BRITISH Nuclear Fuels, the company which runs Sellafield, was accused yesterday of using British Government grants for environmental clean-ups to subsidise its day-to-day running costs.

The Green Party has renewed its call for the closure of the Sellafield nuclear plant after British Nuclear Fuels, the company which runs the factory, reported losses of £2.3bn (€3.5bn) today.

The Green Party has urged the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, to challenge the British Government's funding of BNFL's Sellafield nuclear plant.

Irish MEPs have welcomed the establishment by the Government of a Forum for Europe in the wake of last week's No vote in the referendum on the Nice Treaty.