HURRICANE FLY will miss his intended outing this weekend at Punchestown in the Grade 1 The Dobbins & Madigans at Punchestown Hurdle (Morgiana Hurdle).

A HERO policeman who was swept to his death in the Cumbrian floods had devoted himself to helping others cope with tragedy, mourners were told.

The Government today sanctioned increased Garda visits to the Sellafield nuclear plant to check security at the site.

A recent leak at Sellafield nuclear engineering plant could close part of the site for months, it was reported today.

Dangers posed by the Sellafield nuclear plant could threaten Ireland for the next 150 years, it was claimed today.

Sellafield nuclear plant cannot account for 30kg of plutonium which has “gone missing” from its site, it was reported today.

STAMINA will be at a premium at Warwick today and with Grattan Lodge having more staying power than the mother-in-law over Christmas, he is taken to land the feature totesport Classic Chase.

Timmy Murphy made his first visit to Carlisle a winning one when he partnered Malek to victory at the Cumbrian track on Monday.

Strike action by workers at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant is being stepped up.

The discovery of traces of radioactive waste in supermarket salmon justifies Ireland’s legal bid to close down Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant, it was claimed tonight.

An accident at Sellafield’s MOX plant could have a catastrophic effect, the Government claimed today at a tribunal in The Hague.

Ireland is today taking the British government to a tribunal in The Hague in a bid to gain access to information on Sellafield’s MOX plant.

THE return of shipments of radioactive plutonium fuel, rejected from Japan, is the final humiliation for British Nuclear Fuels, Greenpeace said yesterday.

Irish students are getting ready to stage their own nuclear protest outside the British Embassy today.

Pop star Jim Corr today became the latest of a string of celebrities and politicians to voice opposition to a nuclear shipment which is due to arrive in Sellafield within weeks.

Activists from the environment group Greenpeace are arriving in Dublin this week to prepare for a protest against a shipment of radioactive waste which will travel through the Irish Sea to Sellafield.

Members of the SDLP's youth wing today entered the row over Sellafield claiming that the nuclear power plant threatens lives and livelihoods on both sides of the Irish Sea.

The Government today issued an eleventh-hour plea to Britain to halt this week’s scheduled commissioning of the mixed-oxide plant at the Sellafield nuclear waste reprocessing complex.

The country’s six Fianna Fail MEP’s have written to the European environment commissioner urging the EC to carry out an independent review of nuclear operations at Sellafield.

Sinn Fein used a CND conference in Britain today to demand the closure of the Sellafield nuclear waste disposal plant.

Spent nuclear fuel from Germany is to be reprocessed in Britain for the first time in three years.