THE delays around finalising the location of the national children’s hospital in Dublin may have set the benchmark for prevarication, political featherbedding, professional disagreement, inexplicable decisions and just plain, unacceptable time wasting in public projects in Ireland. The delivery of that facility is a snail-paced saga of a different colour.

The International Energy Agency has expressed reservations about the Government’s plans for a limited sale of non-strategic ESB assets which it warned could affect on sustainable long-term competition in the energy market.

LOCATED on the Atlantic seaboard in the extreme north-west, Donegal Airport is the country’s most remote regional airport with the smallest catchment area of any in the state.

Five men jailed for their opposition to a gas pipeline today called for a public boycott of all petrol stations owned by Shell and Statoil.