Need for international convention to curb antiquities smuggling highlightedMore than £2 million worth of antiquities are illegally exported from Ireland annually in a smuggling trade which has become …Thu Nov 06 1997 - 00:00
More gardai to enforce next Operation FreeflowEighty gardai from the Garda Training College in Templemore, Co Tipperary, are being drafted into Dublin over the next two weeks…Wed Nov 05 1997 - 00:00
New environmental group will campaign on water qualityWater pollution will be the primary target of a new environmental campaigning organisation, inaugurated in Dublin yesterday to…Wed Nov 05 1997 - 00:00
State's parks policy is fundamentally flawed, says councilThe State's policy of designating national parks in areas such as the Wicklow Mountains has been strongly challenged by the Heritage…Wed Nov 05 1997 - 00:00
`Too late' to alter £200 million Dublin sewage plant upgradingTender documents for a £200 million upgrading of Dublin Corporation's main sewage treatment plant at Ringsend are expected to…Wed Nov 05 1997 - 00:00
School runs add to traffic congestion, report findsMothers who drive their children to school have been identified by the Dublin Transportation Office (DTO) as a significant factor…Wed Nov 05 1997 - 00:00
Opponents of Hilton project in Dublin turn attentions to the site owner, AIBConservationists who opposed the controversial Hilton hotel planned for the edge of College Green in Dublin have now switched…Mon Nov 03 1997 - 00:00
Flood to preside over Dublin planning inquiryThe Government has appointed Mr Justice Feargus Flood as chairman and sole member of the tribunal which is to inquire into a …Mon Nov 03 1997 - 00:00
Celbridge group welcomes planning refusalA decision by An Bord Pleanala to refuse planning permission for one of the largest housing schemes ever proposed for Co Kildare…Thu Oct 30 1997 - 00:00
Lough Muckno housing plan revokedThe group campaigning to protect one of Co Monaghan's finest public amenities said yesterday it was "delighted" by Castleblayney…Thu Oct 30 1997 - 00:00
Legal action considered as Inch golf plan gets go-aheadAn Taisce may take legal action to prevent a golf course being laid out on the dunes at Inch strand in Co Kerry following a decision…Tue Oct 28 1997 - 00:00
Heritage body sets out radical plansThe Heritage Council is seeking an almost fourfold increase in funding to underpin its three-year strategic plan which aims to…Wed Oct 22 1997 - 01:00
Dubliners urged to cut their domestic waste to avert landfill site crisisThe average family produces a tonne of waste a year and unless this is reduced Dublin will face a major waste disposal crisis…Tue Oct 21 1997 - 01:00
Hundreds of protesters in Howth assert their right to walk on fenced-off landSeveral hundred people, some accompanied by their dogs, yesterday climbed over and crept under newly erected timber fences to…Mon Oct 20 1997 - 01:00
Protest at `slow death' of Luas railThere is to be a "funeral" tomorrow to mark what its undertakers see as the "slow death" of the Dublin Transportation Initiative…Fri Oct 17 1997 - 01:00
Any undermining of Sellafield case by Minister is outrageous, say residentsThe four Co Louth residents who are taking a High Court action against Sellafield last night reacted angrily to a suggestion …Thu Oct 16 1997 - 01:00
Gallery's £12.5m plan is challengedThe National Gallery of Ireland has been accused of failing to fulfil its statutory duty to consult the Heritage Council before…Wed Oct 15 1997 - 01:00
Read's, Dublin's oldest shop, shuts its doors after 200 yearsRead's of Parliament Street, the oldest shop in Dublin, has closed "until further notice" and is unlikely ever to reopen as a…Sat Oct 11 1997 - 01:00
£150m allocated this year on water and sewerage schemesInvestment in water and sewerage services has increased by more than 30 per cent in real terms, from £110 million in 1994 to …Fri Oct 10 1997 - 01:00
Groups want jobs for locals at docks development sitesCommunity representatives on the Dublin Docklands Development Authority will "walk out" unless a master plan for the 1,300-acre…Thu Oct 09 1997 - 01:00
Wind turbines' environmental effect defendedWind turbines should be seen as a form of "rural sculpture", according to Dr Eddie O'Connor, the former managing director of …Tue Oct 07 1997 - 01:00
State urged to double power from renewable energy sourcesThe Irish Wind Energy Association is seeking a Government commitment to double the current target of achieving a 5 per cent share…Tue Oct 07 1997 - 01:00
O'Rourke says new light rail study will resolve the underground issueThe Minister for Public Enterprise, Ms O'Rourke, has defended her decision to commission another study of the Dublin light rail…Thu Oct 02 1997 - 01:00
Climate change threat `very real'More than 1,500 scientists, including the majority of Nobel prize-winners in science, have issued a strong statement on climate…Wed Oct 01 1997 - 01:00
Wexford Festival Opera plans major expansion of Theatre RoyalWexford Festival Opera is planning a further major expansion of its premises after acquiring a large site beside the existing…Wed Oct 01 1997 - 01:00
Turkey worried 250% more supertankers in Bosphorus will mean more oil disastersThe risk of disastrous accidents from an anticipated 250 per cent increase in oil tanker traffic through the narrow straits of…Mon Sept 29 1997 - 01:00
Docks body hopes to attract new high-tech industriesThe Dublin Docklands Development Authority has set itself the ambitious target of creating up to 40,000 jobs over 15 years in…Thu Sept 04 1997 - 01:00
£1.6 billion docks development plan may create 40,000 jobsThe most ambitious development plan in the history of the State, aimed at creating up to 40,000 jobs in Dublin's redundant docklands…Thu Sept 04 1997 - 01:00
Sligo holiday scheme of 240 homes is plannedPlanning permission is being sought from Sligo County Council for the largest scheme of holiday homes ever proposed in the Republic…Wed Sept 03 1997 - 01:00
Lowry to keep illegally-built extensionThe former Fine Gael minister, Mr Michael Lowry, has been given permission by An Bord Pleanala to retain the large extension …Tue Sept 02 1997 - 01:00
Long way to go for a true urban cultureTwo years ago, in an Irish Times supplement on cities, I argued that we Irish are not really an urban people - a thesis that …Mon Sept 01 1997 - 01:00
Single-track approach is damaging Luas debateI have no wish to engage in a protracted dispute with Garret FitzGeraldTue Aug 26 1997 - 01:00
Legal action likely over levelled Wicklow sand dunesThe Wildlife Service is preparing to take legal action against a landowner who recently levelled a mile of protected sand dunes…Mon Aug 25 1997 - 01:00
25 acres of Aras land may go to zooPlans have been made to hand over part of the 160 acres of Aras an Uachtarain to Dublin Zoo during the period between the resignation…Fri Aug 22 1997 - 01:00
An Bord Pleanala turns down hotel plansPlans for a 140-bedroom four-star hotel in Dublin city centre have been turned down by An Bord PleanalaThu Aug 21 1997 - 01:00
CPOs ready for Wicklow roadCompulsory purchase orders are expected to be served next week by Wicklow County Council to clear the way for a major road-widening…Wed Aug 20 1997 - 01:00
On-street Luas has to be the way to goDr Garret FitzGerald may well have been a 1960s pioneer in advocating urban road pricing, as he recalled in his column last Saturday…Tue Aug 19 1997 - 01:00
Group floats a balloon to show height of planned tower for galleryThe Irish Georgian Society floated a balloon yesterday over the site of the National Gallery's proposed £13 million extension…Thu Aug 14 1997 - 01:00
Objectors resolved to defeat £3m Ventry planPlans for a £3 million holiday village at Ventry Strand in Co Kerry, consisting of 58 two-storey houses, a bar, restaurant, health…Mon Aug 04 1997 - 01:00
Embassy agreement to permit widening work on Stillorgan road bottleneckDun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council has just finalised contract documents for a long-delayed scheme to widen the narrowest …Tue Jul 29 1997 - 01:00
Embassy agreement to permit widening work on Stillorgan road bottleneckDun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council has just finalised contract documents for a long-delayed scheme to widen the narrowest …Mon Jul 28 1997 - 01:00
Towns boot up for £15m information technology titleFour towns have been short listed by Telecom Eireann in the hotly-contested competition for a £15 million information technology…Mon Jul 28 1997 - 01:00
THORP drops air emissions rise planBritish Nuclear Fuels Ltd has told the Government it has dropped plans to increase atmospheric emissions of radioactive tritium…Wed Jul 23 1997 - 01:00
Giving way to car lobby is dead end for city's streetsBy deciding to commission yet another study on Dublin's £220 million light rail transit (LRT) project, the new Minister for Transport…Wed Jul 23 1997 - 01:00
Maura Shaffrey, prominent conservation architect, diesThe death has taken place of Maura Shaffrey, one of Ireland's leading conservation architectsTue Jul 22 1997 - 01:00
Luas inquiry adjourned to await report ordered by O'RourkeThe public inquiry into CIE's plan for a light rail system in Dublin formally opened yesterday but was adjourned 20 minutes later…Tue Jul 22 1997 - 01:00
Dempsey scraps local bodies powers to increase motor taxTHE power of local authorities to increase the level of motor tax in their areas as proposed by the previous government is to…Fri Jul 04 1997 - 01:00
Little enthusiasm generated for energy taxSWITCHING taxation from income to energy, as recommended in a recent ESRI study, does not feature among the pledges made in the…Thu Jul 03 1997 - 01:00
