An environmental group has threatened State authorities with a High Court action unless they erect public warning notices about dangerous substances on an island in Cork Harbour.

A report from 2017 has revealed that Cork County Council was warned that pollution on Haulbowline had “the potential to cause risks to any users of a potential future park” on the site.

HAULBOWLINE Island was the site of Ireland’s only steel plant.

IN THE Marais du Vigueirat, a nature reserve in the Camargue, I ran into an old acquaintance; a coypu emerged from a burrow, looked at me quizzically for a moment, sauntered down to a nearby pool and plunged in.