AUGHINISH Alumina and the Government have won a legal battle against the European Commission in a case that had threatened the future of some jobs at the company’s Askeaton plant in Limerick.

FOR a second successive day, the mid-west yesterday took another serious hit on the jobs front.

A THREATENED civil war in Africa could hit raw material supplies to a Limerick plant, putting 700 jobs at risk.

A GROUP of farmers have raised concerns about the recent spillage of 50,000 litres of caustic soda at the Aughinish Alumina plant with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

IRELAND’S winning formula that created the Celtic Tiger, economic growth and record employment will not work in the future, warned one of the country’s leading industrialists.

EUROPE’S largest aluminium plant must follow proposed new environmental rules, a farmers’ group warned yesterday.