Ireland’s tax regime for oil and gas exploration is to be reformed, with future discoveries taxed according to their scale and value.

Irish driving licences will be eligible in the Canadian province of Ontario very shortly, according to the Department of Transport.

Irish and Canadian scientists will conduct fisheries research onboard Irish national research vessel RV Celtic Explorer, which has set sail from Galway bound for the Labrador and Newfoundland Seas.

AN Irish vessel is playing a central role in important research into cod stocks in the North Atlantic, which is beginning to show signs of hope for the endangered species.

Former 'Baywatch' star Pamela Anderson has joined other celebrities in a new ad campaign to save seals from the annual hunt on Canada’s East Coast.

A SCHOLARSHIP exchange programme for business students at Waterford Institute of Technology is to build on age-old links between the south-east region and the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

The captain and first officer of a ship used by a conservation group to protest against Canada’s annual seal hunt have been charged with getting too close to hunters.

More than 100,000 homes and businesses were still without power across two US states and parts of Canada today as the impact of a winter storm lingered more than a week after it brought chaos to the area.

A “NUCLEAR reactor” one mile beneath the Atlantic ocean helps to maintain Ireland’s mild climate, scientists have discovered.

THE final leg of Canada’s contentious seal hunt moved to the ice floes off north-eastern Newfoundland and Labrador yesterday, with sealers expected to slaughter a further 234,000 harp seal pups in one day.

Animal-rights activists said their vehicle carrying foreign journalists was run off the road today as they were making their way to their helicopter to document the country’s contentious seal hunt.

Actress Pamela Anderson has requested a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper to discuss Canada’s seal hunt, adding her name to the growing list of celebrities who speak out against the annual hunt, which just got under way.

IN just a few weeks, the largest slaughter of marine mammals is set to begin on the ice off Canada's east coast. Over 300,000 seals, mostly pups, will be bludgeoned or shot to death for their fur.

Thousands of sealers armed with clubs, rifles and spears have descended on the ice floes off eastern Canada for the world’s largest seal hunt.

HUMANS may have unwittingly saved themselves from a looming ice age by interfering with the Earth's climate, according to a new study.

Canada is all set to launch the largest single seal hunt in half a century today, with the government allowing more than 300,000 seals to be killed – many of them in a 36 hour mass cull.

The remains of an Irish priest shot dead in the Philippines more than 50 years ago have been flown back to Ireland.

A mother and her teenage daughter were killed when the small plane they were flying from Scotland crashed on to a frozen lake in Labrador on Canada’s eastern seaboard.