Ground-breaking research could give dairy farmers new tools to breed cows that produce more milk, but reduce their methane emissions. Methane is burped out by cows, and can stay in the atmosphere for 12 years and is a factor in climate change. Farming accounts for 85pc of all methane gas emissions in Ireland. Teagasc’s Dr […]

Up to 13,000 households face the prospect of enduring further water restrictions for at least another two years, Irish Water has admitted. A boil water notice was imposed on customers supplied by Lough Talt in Co Sligo on January 11 last, after the dangerous bug cryptosporidium was detected during routine testing. It followed restrictions between […]

A number of people were forced to flee their flats in Rathmines in Dublin this morning after a fire broke out in a dry cleaners below their accommodation. The fire was reported at around 7am on Rathmines Road in the ground floor property. Dublin Fire Brigade responded to an emergency call and sent two tenders […]

PARIS (REUTERS) – Renault’s board will meet on Thursday (Jan 24) to replace Chairman and Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn, in a move that could help ease tensions with alliance partner Nissan following Ghosn’s arrest in Japan for alleged financial misconduct. The meeting will start at 0900 GMT (5pm Singapore time) and consider the proposed appointment […]

Around 6,000 women who had a smear test carried out by CervicalCheck are to be called back for re-testing after problems arose in one of its laboratories which could lead to a risk of abnormalities being missed. Quest Laboratories, which conducts screening of tests, developed an issue with its HPV screening. HPV testing is an […]

DAVOS, Switzerland (REUTERS) – Facebook’s operations chief Sheryl Sandberg said on Wednesday (Jan 23) that the world’s largest social network needed to win back public trust after facing scandals for violating its users’ privacy. The social media platform is investing billions of dollars a year to improve the security of its network, Sandberg said in […]

Gardai have seized close to €1m worth of drugs from an Eastern European crime gang involved in burglaries and drug trafficking across Ireland. This morning detectives attached to the Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau (DOCB) carried out a search of a property close to Drogheda, Co Louth where around 50kg worth of cannabis herb was […]

A LARGE number of Dublin firefighters are currently dealing with a fire at the National Gallery of Ireland. Up to six fire engines were called to the premises on Merrion Square this afternoon after smoke was seen billowing out of its server room.  Staff at the art gallery were immediately evacuated as members of Dublin […]

A child migrant has told how she was shipped off to Australia and told she had no family – despite her parents and five siblings being alive. Yvonne Radzevicius was moved to the country from care at Nazereth House in Cardonald, Glasgow, in 1953, where she had been from nine months old until 10 years […]

PARIS (AFP) – France’s social spending is the highest in the developed world relative to the size of its economy, an OECD study found on Wednesday (Jan 23), as the government weighs how to respond to “yellow vest” protests. Expenditure on healthcare, pensions and other social services stood at 32 per cent of GDP last […]