Tests carried out by two students which showed significant contamination of seawater at two popular West Cork beaches will go on display at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition from today.

THE theme song for the 1960s TV sitcom Green Acres had as its opening line “Green Acres is the place to be. Farm livin’ is the life for me. Land spreadin’ out so far and wide, Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.”

Update: Tributes are being paid this afternoon to a Longford teenager who lost his life while swimming with around 20 others in the River Shannon.

A measure of a society is how it protects elderly people, a judge said yesterday when jailing, for three years, a handbag snatcher who robbed a 74-year-old nun and a second woman, aged 79.

A man has been jailed for life for the murder of 20-year-old Joseph Dunne in Co. Kildare in May 2014.

A Hungarian national has been found guilty of murdering a 20-year-old Kildare man with a baseball bat.

The jury resumes its deliberations this morning, in the trial of a man accused of murdering a 20-year-old man in Co. Kildare.

A jury has been shown CCTV footage which appears to show a man accused of murder in Co Kildare running from the scene with a baseball bat.

The most outstanding feature of this Irish summer — coming to an ‘official’ end this very day — has been the lack of winged insects.

RTÉ and water protesters feed off each other. 

Gardaí are investigating the death of a 20-year-old man in Naas, Co Kildare, last night.

Jockey Eddie O’Connell and trainer Jim Lambe’s bid to stop the Turf Club from making any adverse findings against them in respect of allegations they were involved in irregular betting has opened before the High Court.

THE word ‘breathtaking’ can be taken in several ways when talking of coastal sites: they can be stunning to look at, and even more so to look out from, but it can also mean so exposed and so windy that it’s hard to catch a breath.

A 26-year-old man has appeared before Tullamore District Court, charged with the burglary of an elderly woman's home.

SKEHARD ROAD, CORK CITY €245,000

KILBRITTAIN, CORK €110,000

MINISTER for Environment John Gormley has agreed to meet a delegation from the Courtmacsherry area to discuss funding for a waste water treatment plant, which is seen as the only viable solution to destroying algal infestation of bays in the area.

SEA lettuce will continue to wreak havoc in Courtmacsherry bay until a proper waste water treatment plant is commissioned in the area — and that will not happen until at least 2015.

FANCY building castles in the air, or pinning them down to the ground, at Cork’s coastal Coolmaine?

A MAN was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment yesterday for the assault of a District Court judge in Waterford city 18 months ago.

THE tourist industry in a part of west Cork could suffer serious damage if Minister for the Environment John Gormley doesn’t immediately release funds to clean up a tidal bay which is infested with a foul-smelling algae.

AN algae which had plagued beaches in west Cork could cost €1.5 million – unless a use for the “sea lettuce” can be found.

THE ONLY solution to the zero wind problem, in relation to wind generation of energy, is to do it on a total European level.

LAST week the first storm of winter in this part of the world, with the huge gunnera leaves in the garden almost flying off their stalks – they need controlling anyway – and things going bang in the night.

WOULD Environment Minister John Gormley stop preaching about the climate changes that “will” affect Irish landscapes and buildings in the future (Irish Examiner, September 15).

Damien Enright on options for the weed growing in bays.

AWAY WE GO put up a decent display of front-running to take the Martinstown Opportunity Maiden Hurdle in the hands of Eddie Power in very testing conditions at Limerick yesterday.

SIEGEMASTER stamped himself an exciting chasing prospect when coasting to a bloodless victory in the Horse & Jockey Beginners Chase at Thurles yesterday.

Keys Pride benefited from a great Davy Russell ride which enabled her to walk away with the Dawn Milk Handicap Chase at Listowel.

GEORGIAN design is all about proportion and symmetry, and while its style is easily aped, it is harder to get right than wrong.

HARBOUR VIEW is one of those places that the name says it all. But, the thing about this west of Cork seaside setting is that the name is historic... it isn’t just some developer or house vendor’s fancy.

GREAT news for Courtmacsherry Bay.

Gardaí investigating the activities of the Continuity IRA discovered a home made pipe bomb in Co Wexford, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

I TRAVEL the N25 from Rosslare to Cork twice daily and I regularly travel the N20 from Cork to Limerick.

BEAUTY, they say, is only skin deep. So, can the same ‘skin-deep’ line of demarcation apply to something at the lower end of the prettiness scale?

Three men arrested during a Garda Special Branch investigation into the activities of the Continuity IRA in Co Wexford faced new explosives and ammunition charges at the Special Criminal Court today.

Three Wexford men charged with membership of an illegal organisation following a Garda Special Branch investigation into the activities of the Continuity IRA have now been granted bail and are due to return to court on April 4 when a book of evidence may be served.

Three men arrested during a Garda Special Branch investigation into the activities of the Continuity IRA in Co Wexford were charged with membership and other charges at a special sitting of the Special Criminal Court in Dublin tonight.

A MAJOR push is on to get rid of a stench which virtually destroyed a beauty spot last summer and which is a constant cause of upset to people living near the village of Kilbrittain.

THE gentrification process began early for this house at number 3, Harbour View in Cork’s Summerhill North when the venerable old building was rescued in 1991 by its builder-owner.

Hurricane Ivan lost its catastrophic capabilities as it skirted Grand Cayman today, but it still uprooted trees, burst the banks of canals and flooded some homes with winds near 155mph.