Pat Devlin has named the 18-man squad which will represent Ireland at this month's four nations semi-professional tournament in Aberdeen, Scotland from May 18 to 26.

Oil and gas group Dana Petroleum has started work on the Banff field gas reinjection project in the North Sea and a new gas field development off the coast of the Netherlands.

European environment ministers have condemned America’s rejection of the Kyoto Protocol and its policies on greenhouse gas emissions, calling it a political move to preserve the energy-burning US lifestyle that has nothing to do with economics.