MORE than 200 delegates from a number of countries will attend a special three-day conference in UCC next week which will focus on Ireland’s future energy and transport needs.

BUILDING work on a €16 million national maritime and energy research centre is to begin in Cork within months.

SCORES of customers sought reassurances from Mitchelstown Credit Union yesterday following revelations its financial stability is under threat and that it had been ordered to cease all business lending.

IRELAND’S most advanced wave power company plans to raise up to €20 million next year towards the commercial development of a sea-driven turbine currently generating power off the west coast.

THE growth of supermarkets creates hundreds of jobs both in the stores themselves and in the local community with the need for suppliers.

YOU need only stand on a beach to get a feeling of energy all around you — sun and wind on your face, the power of the waves, the ebb and flow of the tides. But, very little of that energy is being harnessed.

ONE kilometre off the Connemara coast, not far from Spiddal, a rather innocuous looking device is floating in the choppy waters.

OCEAN ENERGY, headquartered in Cobh, Co Cork, has been nominated for a prestigious Rushlight Award in London for its contribution to wave energy technology.

TWO men in their 40s died following a horror head-on crash on a bypass in north Cork.

FORMER employees and suppliers of Galtee Meats have called on supermarket groups to boycott Galtee products following the closure of the once-thriving plant in Mitchelstown.

SEVERAL hundreds people are expected to mount a protest outside the Galtee Meats plant in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, today to coincide with its closure.

CONSUMERS have been urged to boycott the Galtee, Shaws and Roscrea brands amid claims they contain non-Irish pigmeat.

WAVE energy could be producing electricity for the Irish market by 2009, following successful tests off the west coast.

AN IRISH company which has developed a revolutionary wave energy device is poised to capture a massive slice of the sector’s €200 billion global market.

MORE than 1,000 people marched through Mitchelstown, Co Cork, yesterday in protest at the decision of Dairygold Co-op to end pig slaughtering at its Galtee plant in the town.

THE Government was accused yesterday of ignoring a north Cork town facing “economic meltdown”.

The snooker world looks set to be hit by yet another major political row in the wake of this week’s decision by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association to axe the game’s commercial arm, World Snooker Enterprises.

AN environmental time bomb was ticking in the Atlantic last night after the sinking of the stricken Prestige oil tanker 500 miles from Mizen Head.

A harbour town is prepared to spend over €1m to provide an artificial beach.

A FAMED harbour town is prepared to spend over €1m to provide an artificial beach.

The man mainly responsible for bringing the Ryder Cup to Wales for the first time has issued a timely reminder that while the match may be nine years away, there is not a moment to waste.

Wales is to stage the Ryder Cup for the first time in 2010 - and Scotland in 2014.