Critics of Sellafield have called for urgent action from the Irish Government on revelations of serious safety failings at the nuclear reprocessing plant.

A Norwegian company seeking to expand its fish farming operation in West Cork has admitted that severe storms compromised its ability to treat its salmon for sea lice and other diseases last year — prompting environmentalists to say this bolsters their argument for closed containment systems.

The Department of the Environment said it has no record of being written to by a UN committee investigating whether Ireland was properly consulted in Britain’s decision to build a new nuclear power plant.

MORE THAN 150 job losses were announced yesterday after workers at a hotel in Limerick and a tannery in Waterford were told the businesses were closing.