Irish businesses have been urged to invest in the US market, with states in the American heartland seen as ripe for growth.

IRELAND is still on target to meet 40% of its electricity production through renewable energy in the next decade, Energy Minister Eamon Ryan insisted yesterday.

IRAN yesterday agreed to hold talks next month with six world powers on its latest proposals to allay concerns over its nuclear programme, in a move Washington welcomed as an “important first step”.

“CHINA’S rivers are poisoned, their air is putrid. If C02 emissions are something that worried them, they’d have tackled it 30 or 40 years ago.”