The Green Party’s legal challenge to RTÉ’s exclusion of Eamon Ryan from a televised party leaders’ debate will be heard at the High Court on Thursday.

The Green Party has launched a High Court challenge against RTÉ over its failure to include the party’s leader, Eamon Ryan, in a party leaders’ debate to be broadcast on February 15.

Most of the country's new Councillors are now elected, and a battle is underway between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil to be the largest party on local authorities.

The Government has been asked to ensure that any new national spatial strategy mapping out development across the country must be backed up by law and also prevent a “planning free-for-all”.

TRUST the Americans to come up with novel ways of getting rid of unwanted and wilted Christmas trees in an environmentally-friendly way.

WASTE collection services should be privatised across the country as independent companies are better able to recycle waste, a Green councillor has urged.