Donal Hickey says local warnings should be heeded

Weather change from global warming is unleashing fresh threats to our environment and landscape, writes Donal Hickey.

Donal Hickey on a threat we need to take seriously.

ENVIRONMENT Minister John Gormley has promised to close a loophole in Irish law that allows developers to begin work on large construction projects before the completion of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) as required by EU legislation.

A FATAL helicopter accident which resulted in the death of two Galway businessmen last year was probably caused by the pilot becoming disoriented due to poor visibility, an official investigation has concluded.

EXPERTS yesterday called for more funding to identify areas most at risk from landslides.

THE number of helicopters registered in Ireland has doubled in the last five years, it emerged yesterday.

The Health and Safety Authority is investigating the death of man in a forest in Co Galway yesterday.

An investigation is underway into yesterday's helicopter crash in Galway in which two men died.

One man has died following today’s helicopter crash in Co Galway.

Three people are in a critical condition following a helicopter crash in Co Galway this afternoon.

THE Government is relying too much on cancer-linked chlorine to disinfect the country’s drinking water, according to the European Commission.

DESPITE the protestations of Environment Minister Dick Roche, the inescapable and damaging implication of the latest volley of legal writs from Brussels is that Ireland is not taking the environmental laws of the EU seriously.

Labour has slammed the Government's environmental record following the announcement that the European Commission is to take Ireland to court over breaches of EU law.

Three firms are facing joint prosecution after a landslide at Derrybrien in Co Galway last year.

A WIND energy company was blamed yesterday for the landslide in Derrybrien, Co Galway, last October.

A study into the cause of a mudslide at a bog in Derrybrien in Co Galway last year is expected to be made public today.

THE Shannon Regional Fisheries Board (SRFB) could take legal action against whoever was responsible for the Derrybrien peat landslide in Co Galway, it emerged last night.

RESIDENTS of Derrybrien village in Co Galway hope to enlist EU Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom’s support for compensation for the disastrous landslide which struck their community last month.

The Green Party has called for an inter-departmental review to investigate why a wind farm project was allowed to go ahead in the Derrybrien area of Co Galway.

A DÁIL Committee was asked yesterday to investigate the cause of the landslides that have damaged farmland, forestry and roads in Derrybrien, Co Galway.

Residents in Derrybrien in Co Galway are welcoming indications from the Government that the ESB will be made to pay compensation if they are proven to be responsible for the landslides that have affected the area.

Fine Gael TD Paul Connaghton has called on Environment Minister Martin Cullen to devise an action plan to tackle the crisis caused by an ongoing landslide in Co Galway.

Investigations were going on today to uncover the cause of the latest landslide in Derrybrien, Co Galway.

THE south Galway community of Derrybrien has renewed its call for a complete halt of the construction of a 60 million wind farm in the Slieve Aughty mountains following yesterday’s landslide, the second this month.