Twenty-five staff at the National Maritime College (NMCI) in Cork are to be told their jobs are still on the line, though progress has been made in a course accreditation row with the Department of Transport.

An evacuation route put forward by Indaver Ireland to facilitate movement of personnel off Haulbowline Island in the event of an emergency involves use of a road that is gated, with the gates locked during certain periods.

It may have sounded a bit head in the clouds when the naval service announced plans to use a kite in an innovative radar system which would also help save fuel.

There were angry exchanges and at least three calls for an adjournment at the opening day of An Bord Pleanála’s oral hearing into proposals by waste management company Indaver Ireland to build a €160m incinerator in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.

A UCC spin-off company specialising in wave, tidal, and offshore windfarm technology hopes to make €10m- €15m per year in the next five years and has the potential to make significantly more.

The National Maritime College of Ireland (NMCI) is to establish the world’s largest training network for seamen, along with offshore oil and gas rig workers.

Lee Gibson is a bright, happy boy who cannot speak, but he was in the High Court yesterday to use his hands to sign ‘thank you’ to the judge who approved a €2m interim payment for his care.

A man was charged with obstructing gardaí in a drugs probe by allegedly refusing to give them passwords for three mobile phones.

A maritime facility which will power the ‘blue economy” was opened in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork, over the weekend by Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

Opening of the UCC Beaufort Building, Ringaskiddy, by An Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

The country’s marine economy could create up to 29,000 jobs and contribute an additional €2.7bn in growth by 2020, according to a report to be launched this morning.

Irish marine industries can exceed €6.4bn a year in turnover by 2020 and double their contribution to GDP to 2.4% by 2030, states a new national roadmap for the sector.

Ireland plans to become the first country in the world to use “floating off-shore wind turbines” which it is envisaged will supply the national grid with green electricity within the next six years.

THE story of Elan is so full of improbable twists that if you were to read about it in a novel, you would struggle to accept it as believable.

A 27-year-old man died after his car hit a ditch adjacent to a junction of a main road in East Cork early yesterday.

Waste management firm Indaver has dropped an appeal against costs awarded against it following a legal action in which a judge said its behaviour amounted to an abuse of process.

A High Court judge has agreed to further extend court protection for the companies operating the Cork-Swansea ferry service to allow for finalisation of a survival scheme.

GLOBAL animal feedstuff trader Arkady Feed Ltd is predicting a surge in Irish agri-food trading after the end of the EU’s restrictive milk quota regime in 2015.

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny has said the €3.6 billion accounting error which tripped up Kevin Cardiff’s bid to sit on the European Court of Auditors should not be enough to prevent him taking the job.

Indaver Ireland have secured permission of the High Court to challenge An Bord Pleanála's refusal to grant the company planning permission to build a waste incinerator at Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.

TECHNOLOGY ideas will be nurtured into start-up businesses in two industry- led institutions launched yesterday by Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton.

THE victim’s of the state fishery board’s single worst tragedy are to be remembered this weekend.

HAZARDOUS waste should be destroyed in incinerators or buried in landfill here instead of being exported abroad, the State environmental watchdog has said.

ORTHOPAEDIC products firm DePuy Ireland, which is owned by Johnson & Johnson, is investing in the development of a multi-million euro innovation centre in Cork, creating 20 jobs.

A COMMUNITY group has reacted angrily to an announcement that Indaver Ireland is seeking planning permission for a €130 million incinerator for household and commercial waste.

ABOUT 10% of Irish hazardous waste is not being disposed of properly, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, which also called on the Government to curb the widespread exporting of Irish hazardous waste.

HOUSEHOLDERS must realise that burning 60,000 tonnes of rubbish illegally in backyards can have more deadly health effects than incineration, an Oireachtas Committee heard yesterday.

An Irish man has been appointed a vice president of the New York-based Moog Corporation, the worldwide aviation and electronics group.

THE Environmental Protection Agency has granted a licence for the country's first toxic waste incinerator, despite vehement opposition from environmental groups.

ENTERPRISE Minister Micheál Martin yesterday refused to speculate on whether an impending EU decision would scupper a crucial €434 million biotechnology plant under construction in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.

Ireland must focus on highly-skilled R&D employment because it can not compete effectively with other low-cost economies for manufacturing jobs anymore, Enterprise Minister Micheál Martin declared today.

INTEL remains on course to receive up to €50 million in Government grant aid to support its €3 billion investment in a newmicrochip plant in Leixlip despite the European Commission blocking the original €170m aid package.

THE 770 students and staff in the country’s new National Maritime College are most at risk if there is an accident at Ireland’s first proposed toxic waste incinerator because they on its doorstep, a college lecturer has warned.

An oral hearing into the granting of a draft licence for the toxic waste incinerator planned for Ringaskiddy, Co Cork, is due to get underway today.

The Environmental Protection Agency is to hold an oral hearing next month into the toxic waste incinerator planned for Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.

THE risk to animal or human health from the discovery of a consignment of contaminated maize gluten feed imported from the US is negligible, the Department of Agriculture and Food said yesterday.

THE Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) director general has warned there is no system here to routinely monitor the health of people living near incinerators and waste sites.

DESPITE repeated assurances that incinerators and waste sites are not hazardous, fears will be fanned by revelations that Ireland has put no system in place to monitor the health of people living near such sites.

IRELAND’S first dedicated maritime college was in ship-shape form yesterday and is ready to open for lectures next Monday.

Johnson & Johnson subsidary Centocor confirmed plans today to build a new plant in Cork, employing 330 people.

ANTI-INCINERATOR campaigners yesterday called for a complete ban on incineration as they marched on the Dáil in protest at the proposed Indaver facility in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.