MINISTER for the Environment John Gormley has said the future of the Cork harbour island of Haulbowline will be decided at a cabinet meeting in coming weeks.

ONE of the great annual Irish events was highlighted again yesterday, though tens of thousands of volunteers have been working on it for a very long time.

Sinn Féin MEP Mary Lou McDonald today called on Minister for the Environment John Gormley to comply with European Commission demands and order a new Environmental Impact Assessment on the M3 at Tara.

THE little known Kerry Slug has crawled its way into the spotlight following a recent decision to re-route a small section of a major new roadway linking Cork and Kerry.

Minister for the Environment, John Gormley is facing further calls today to prove that he has not abandoned his green credentials by going into government with Fianna Fail.

The British government moved to shore up consumer confidence today as the UK's poultry industry faced the prospect of multimillion-pound losses following an outbreak of the potentially deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu.

The Government will not review current constituency boundaries before next year’s general election, it emerged today.

FIFTY jobs have been created through the €10 million investment in Ireland’s first automated Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) plant.

THE recent announcement by Environment Minister Dick Roche that the tolled M3 motorway will proceed is probably one of the worst planning decisions ever made by an Irish Minister for the Environment.

Teams of forensic experts packed bodies in dry ice today as Thailand’s government announced that its death toll in the tsunami disaster had doubled to more than 4,500 people – almost half of them foreigners – and hopes faded that more survivors would be found.

WE in the Environmental Health Officers Association are disappointed with the stance taken by Martin Cullen and other elected representatives on the proposed ban on smoking in the workplace.