In response to Philip Jones (Irish Examiner, Letters, September 16), I never said there was a Muslim master-plan to take over Europe, but if Europe ignores its rapidly growing Muslim population, and opens its doors indefinitely to the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa, it is a matter of time before ‘Eurabia’ becomes reality. 

Philip Jones (Letters, September 9) says that those opposed to mass immigration from the Middle East into Europe including Ireland are motivated by “hatred and then racism.” Concerns about mass Muslim immigration have nothing to do with racism since Islam is not a race.

A man’s claim to squatter’s rights over a ruined 13th century castle in Galway has been rejected by the High Court.

EUGENE MURPHY and his son Sean from Waterfall in Co Cork have won the 2011 Baileys Cow award.

THE 10-year battle over Ireland’s first toxic waste incinerator raises questions about the decision-making processes, a leading environmental law expert has said.

A RARE National Dairy Show, two-in-a-row win kept the Barrett clan of Togher and Adamstown, Cork, at the top of Irish dairy showing last weekend.

KERRY pride, dented at the county footballers being knocked out of the All-Ireland title race on Saturday, has been partially restored.

BOUNDARY changes, a retirement, and a clerical error have thrown the race for the fourth seat in this redrawn northside ward wide open.

INDAVER will today claim its plans for a toxic waste incinerator in east Cork will not only resolve Ireland’s mounting waste mountain but will also deal with the expensive problem of contaminated soils and sludges at the former Irish Steel facility in the region.

Vulnerable cargo ships off the coast of Somalia may be given their own armed guards by an EU task force being sent to combat the huge surge in piracy there.

DAIRY farmers enjoyed a pre-recession bash at the World Holstein Friesian Federation Conference and Show in Killarney and Millstreet at the weekend.

IF Mary O’Leary ever runs short of reasons to be cynical about the planning system, she casts her mind back to January 2004 to restock.

I WAS flabbergasted at Environment Minister Dick Roche’s assertion that Indaver’s incinerators are passing through “one of the most open and rigorous physical planning and environmental licensing regimes in the world” (January 5).

SOME of your correspondents who have challenged the decision to proceed with a toxic waste incinerator at Ringaskiddy are under the illusion that we live in a democracy.

THE chairperson of CHASE, Mary O’Leary (Irish Examiner letters, November 18) correctly said that the job of John Ahern of Indaver Ireland is to sell incinerators and make huge profits for his overseas shareholders.

MUCH of the housing development taking place in towns and villages is poorly designed and ill considered, a conference on the Future of Towns & Villages in Ireland heard yesterday.

I AM writing in response to the column by Pat Brosnan titled “Democracy incinerated in pursuit of something called common good” in which he expresses his opinion that democracy was poorly served when An Bord Pleanála gave permission to Indaver Ireland to construct a chemical incinerator at Ringaskiddy in spite of community objections.

THE decision by An Bord Pleanála to give the go-ahead for Indaver’s toxic waste incinerator on the shores of Cork harbour must spell the end of the Bord as a credible planning body.

The outcome of the Bord Pleanála decision on the proposed incinerator at Ringaskiddy, which gave approval to Indaver Ireland to proceed with the country’s first toxic waste plant, is a perplexing one.

Planning authorities are to rule today on whether the country’s first commercial toxic waste incinerator can be built near Cork harbour.

THE most dramatic moment on the 12th day of the Indaver hearing came when a planning consultant for the applicant company acknowledged there would be a material contravention of the 2002 Cork County Development Plan if the project goes ahead.

THE Government drive to encourage women to breastfeed could be jeopardised if the Indaver Ireland proposal for a hazardous waste incinerator goes ahead in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.

A MOTHER spoke yesterday of how she feared a disaster at a proposed controversial toxic incinerator plant.

THERE was 17% drop in the number of planning permissions granted for new houses and apartments in the first quarter of this year compared to the same period last year.

A MOTHER-OF-THREE jailed for her teenage son’s chronic truancy was back behind bars yesterday after an appeal against her sentence failed.

The new head of the Omagh bomb investigation is to face tough questions from victims’ relatives when he meets them for the first time next week.

A senior British police officer has been appointed to head a new investigation into the Omagh bomb atrocity in Northern Ireland, it emerged today.

Ombudsman Nuala O'Loan is being threatened with legal action by representatives of senior officers and rank and file members of the police force in the North.

The North's police ombudsman, Nuala O’Loan, has given a broad welcome to the North’s Police Board’s recommendation to appoint an officer from outside the PSNI to play a key role in the investigation into the Omagh bombing.

The North’s Police Board has agreed to appoint an officer from outside the PSNI to play a key role in the investigation into the Omagh bombing.

The Lockerbie tragedy fostered "bonds of friendship born out of tragedy", Dumfries and Galloway convenor Andrew Campbell said today.