Heated debate: making our homes carbon-free

Moving Ireland’s two million homes away from oil to renewable forms of energy is an immense task

Farming forecast: turning waste into energy

With an economy based largely on agriculture, Ireland is uniquely placed to to generate biomethane using farm waste

Water provision: Political consensus emerging on once toxic problem

Agreement is building around stand-alone body under public ownership and management

Irish Water independence given cautious cross-party backing

Some politicians say support is contingent on utility remaining in public ownership

Irish Water to become single national utility

Separation from Ervia group could bring savings of €70m a year but also job losses

Cork’s Webworks office building guiding €16m

Block on long-term lease to semi-State Ervia with rent potential of €25/sq ft after review

Irish Water drives 73% profit growth at State-owned Ervia

Ervia made capital investments of €673m in gas and water infrastructure in 2017

Kildare landowners object to purchase order for pumping station

Irish Water wants to increase capacity of system serving Newbridge

Artificial intelligence set to rewrite rules for legal profession

Experts predict more than 100,000 jobs in sector could be automated within 20 years

Water supplies running low in many parts of the country

Irish Water says exceptionally dry months hitting supplies

Ervia confirms Mike Quinn appointment as chief executive

Quinn will join the company in October on a 7 year contract

Ervia to pay €100m dividend to exchequer

Payment from Irish Water’s holding company follows sale of Bord Gáis Energy

Irish companies plan to spend more on marketing in 2017

Social media channels are main target for further spend on advertising, survey finds

‘Donors said: If we don’t have Goal, who is going to do this?’

New general manager believes troubled aid agency is winning back trust of its funders

Gas Networks Ireland to redeem €500m of bonds early

Bond buyback set to be financed by recent debt sale at more favourable rates

Ervia’s Gas Networks Ireland sells €625m of bonds

Deal marks company’s first bond sale since Bord Gáis Energy was sold in 2014

Goal appoints new manager to regain trust of donors

Celine Fitzgerald appointed and says next 12 months will be ‘critical’ for the aid agency

Injury, damage and negligence payouts by State up 50% in 2015

State Claims Agency awards and costs reach €219.3m, up from €141.4m in 2014 - C&AG

Fight the Pipe: An Irish water crisis?

To solve Dublin water shortages, plans are in train to build a 170km pipeline from the Shannon. Opponents say it will affect the entire length of the river

Lifting lid on Irish Water reveals unusual governance

‘There is a large section on Ervia’s website on transparency ... These pages are empty’

Labour members set to reject Fine Gael alliance

Burton and Howlin sceptical on prospect of coalition, with grassroots ‘very, very, cool’

Cantillon: Lack of fines shows energy regulator needs more fuel

Commission for Energy Regulation in talks with the Government to obtain power to penalise big companies it regulates

Fianna Fáil will scrap water charges despite legal advice

Publication of Irish Water legal advice criticised by Sinn Féin

Origin appoints Rose Hynes as chairman

Former Ervia chair replaces Aryzta chief Owen Killian in the role

Ervia director backs public utility model for Irish Water

Dublin Economic Workshop hears decades of fragmentation and underinvestment had created severe difficulties

Chairwoman of Irish Water parent to resign

Rose Hynes says she cannot commit the time to Ervia

Almost 50,000 apply for grant without paying water bills

Alan Kelly urges people not to ‘pull a fast one’ over the new water conservation payment

Irish Water expects 80 per cent to pay charges

Ervia says utility company will invest €5.5bn in infrastructure over next seven years

Irish Water staff to get annual pay rises of up to 3%

LRC proposals a bid to resolve row over the non-payment of bonuses in 2013 and 2014

Ervia planning to tap bond markets for €500m

Irish Water, the energy group’s subsidary, reports €139m loss for 2014

MacGill Summer School to open in Glenties, Co Donegal

Alan Kelly pulls out of Tuesday sessions when Irish Water on the agenda

Safety comes first in Gas Networks Ireland’s €2.9m rebrand

Forced to drop the Bord Gáis name, the company wants to minimise confusion

Cabinet approves new board for Irish Water parent, Ervia

Two subsidiary boards for Irish Water and for Gas Networks Ireland to remain

Irish Water told of child-benefit data concerns early

Officials told utility that proposals to check child ages regularly would be ‘onerous and inefficient’

Taoiseach rails at SF members ‘insulting ordinary people’

Irish Water: Gerry Adams challenges Kenny on Ervia chief’s role in firm linked to meters

Irish Water parent company defends €100m extra for meters

Michael McNicholas says final budget only arrived at after finalising prices with contractors

Irish Water welcomes clarity of new package

Ervia and Irish Water say new package does much to clarify and restore public trust

Noonan hopes Irish Water follows through on bonus move

Siptu to meet management at utility company over decision to cancel 2014 payments

Delay water bills until Government committee finds charges solution, says Jack Wall

Irish Water should offer redundancies for long-term savings, says Fergus O’Dowd

New Irish Water directors to face ‘elevated’ criteria

Board will be expected to increase public confidence in semi-State after controversies

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