A six-year-old boy who collapsed at a farm in the North died from heart failure, the family’s minister has said.

One thousand people are expected to mark the murders of two Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) soldiers in a 1998 IRA bomb attack during a rally in Belfast city centre on Saturday.

FROM old walkways in Drimoleague in west Cork, to wild flowers on Valentia Island, Co Kerry, heritage and the natural environment are being used increasingly to create jobs.

BUDGET cuts will have detrimental effects on our national heritage and close many small enterprises that are dependent on it, according to the Heritage Council.

Loss of unique habitats such as bogs and wetlands and the threat from invasive species are the most significant dangers to wildlife in Ireland today, experts have warned.

WITH summer and, hopefully, prolonged spells of dry, sunny weather ahead, the thought of floods must be the last thing on people’s minds.

Devastating once-a-century coastal floods could happen every 10 years, climate change experts today warned.

NOW that the Celtic Tiger has died, the post mortems focus on the economic and property collapses, but the spotlight is beginning to be put on the Tiger’s physical effects on the landscape of Ireland.

More than 1,000 cultural events have been planned to celebrate this year’s Heritage Week, it was revealed today.

Heritage campaigners were today invited to apply for a cut of €3m to help realise their projects.

FARMERS are often described as custodians of the environment, but that’s not always true. They could have an even more important future role as custodians — with more financial sweeteners being given to farmers that do most for our landscape, which has already suffered so much destruction.

MORE than half the population feels it is important to protect our heritage, according to a survey.

ENVIRONMENT Minister Martin Cullen was accused yesterday of pulling a political stroke in seeking to locate the National Biological Records Centre in his home constituency of Waterford.