Creating waste to boost profits of a multi-national’s incinerator in Dublin Bay is a nightmare scenario, says Victoria White

GOVERNMENT efforts to reverse falling maths standards will not be enough to see improvements for another decade, the head of the engineering profession has claimed.

IRELAND could end up paying hundreds of millions of euro in fines unless we divert more waste away from traditional dumping (landfill) and meet EU targets.

A small village at the centre of the Corrib gas controversy will be sliced in half by the newly-proposed pipeline route, campaigners claimed today.

The implementation of waste charges is receiving a boost this afternoon.