‘Consequences of Wild Atlantic Way success must be managed’

Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment Denis Naughten has today welcomed the decision to allow a power station in the midlands continue operating until 2030.

Woody Allen chose Hotel Le Bristol in Paris to capture the glamour of the roaring twenties in ‘Midnight in Paris’. After a weekend there, Deirdre Reynolds understands why.

More than 66,000 motorists had their speed checked by gardaí in under 10 hours as Operation Slowdown delivered on its promise of an intensive nationwide scrutiny of driving habits.

IT WAS a beautiful summer day and my task was to take a group of 8 to 12 year olds on a nature walk as part of the Lough Ree Environmental Summer Festival.

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA) has been forced to put down a buzzard that was found shot and badly injured in County Westmeath.

There is growing concern over the lack of a timeframe for carrying out remedial work around Lanesborough where 25m Asian clams have been found.

An Irishman who pleaded guilty earlier this week to causing almost €340,000 worth of damage to an Australian hotel has been found dead.

An eye-witness to the tragedy in Lough Ree that has claimed the life of a fisherman has said that their boat was hit by a "freak squall".

One of two anglers taken from Lough Ree after an accident has died overnight.

Three men arrested by gardaí investigating a post office robbery in county Roscommon earlier this week have been released without charge.

Gardaí in Co Roscommon have arrested two men in connection with a post office robbery in Strokestown this morning.

A public house which had been in the possession of bank-appointed receivers has been reoccupied and reopened by its former owners.

A six-month-old baby was in serious condition in hospital last night after a car carrying seven people crashed in Co Longford.

A man in his late 50s has been killed in an industrial accident in County Longford.

MOST local authorities expect it will be next week — at the earliest — before normal water supply is fully restored around the country.

THE exact details that led to the deaths of three men in Monday’s West Cork pleasure cruiser blaze are unlikely to be known until spring next year at the earliest.

I WAS in Lanesborough in Co Longford the other day and, as I walked across the bridge that connects it to Ballyleague in Co Roscommon, I stopped and looked over the parapet.

Gardaí in Dublin have arrested two people following a large seizure of the party drug BZP in the north of the city yesterday.

THE weekend before last I was in Lanesborough for the annual Lough Ree environmental summer school. I had the pleasant job of guiding boatloads of people on the lake and the river and showing off their beauty.

CONTROVERSIAL Turkish construction company Gama has recorded a profit at its Irish operation following the sale of part of its stake in the Tynagh electricity plant in Galway.

EIRCOM is today expected to be served with notice of industrial action up to and including strike action by 4,500 of its workers.

TWO of Ireland’s main peat-fuelled ESB power stations in the midlands are closed today because the ESB has to rely on trial and error to work out how to stop the plants being corroded by dangerous chemicals.

Two ESB power stations in the midlands have been shut down due to technical problems today.

Post mortem examinations are due to be carried out today on a mother and her two grown-up children who died in a drowning tragedy in north Cork yesterday.

These little wraps of flour tortillas are packed with flavour and have been served as vegetarian canapés at the Lanesborough for many years. Makes 12 mini-wraps.

PAUL GAYLER is executive chef at London's Lanesborough Hotel and an award-winning food writer. He is well known for having brought vegetarian cooking to a new level.

CONTROVERSIAL Turkish construction firm Gama, saw its losses in Ireland swell to more than €15 million in 2004.

Two Irish brothers imprisoned in France for almost two years over an €11m drugs haul were tonight set free.

THE cooling towers at Rhode Power Station in Offaly were demolished in a cloud of dust yesterday.

ONLY in three luxury hotels in Ireland can satisfaction be virtually assured, according to an independent guide just published.

DOZENS of workers received €250,000 yesterday when the ESB power station at Rhode, Co Offaly, closed.

Two Irish brothers were arrested in France after police said they had found drugs with an estimated street value of €11m.

A vat scam worth £639 has made the Celtic Tiger vulnerable to a foot and mouth crisis.