Research has found some cockroaches avoid traps baited with glucose to avoid poisoning. Photograph: Getty Images Cockroaches lose ‘sweet tooth’ to evade traps

Research find insects adapt tastes to survive

Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar Nama-funded road links N2 and N3

Work on €20.55 million project started in September 2011

Unesco calls halt to golf development near Giant’s Causeway

Work on Bushmills Dunes was due to begin this autumn

Murvagh Beach, near Donegal town. Photograph: Frank Miller/The Irish Times Hogan 'concerned' over loss of Blue Flags at some beaches

Minister for the Environment asks officials to raise issue with European Commission

The council stressed that the revamp was needed because the current brick surface had become worn and damaged €4m granite revamp of Grafton Street paving to begin in weeks

Dublin street to remain open to pedestrians during 18-month project

File image Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria, UK. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images ‘Very low’ risk from new UK nuclear plants

Study shows a severe accident at a British plant would not require evacuation

A hoard of late Bronze Age gold ornaments that was found at Mooghaun North, Co Clare, in 1854. The newly recovered treasure trove found in the UK includes medieval silver coins, military items and a Bronze Age axe and Bronze Age spear-head, all believed to have been illegally removed from Ireland between 2009 and 2012. Photograph: National Museum of Ireland Looted artefacts recovered in UK to go on display

Treasure trove of 900 items apparently collected in Co Tipperary

The writer's 1965 painting made while camping on Inishvickillane I doubt if Charlie Haughey ever stewed a rabbit on a fire of sheep dung

ANOTHER LIFE: SUCH A SHAME that the one taoiseach to count love of nature among the finer things in life should have been such…

Overbrowsing: we have introduced new species of deer to our native red and naturalised fallow deer, such as the herd in the Phoenix Park, Dublin. Photograph: David Sleator The high price Ireland pays for too many wild deer

Unless we implement a strategy to manage our wild deer, they will ruin our native forests – and themselves

Quirky: a limestone mushroom sculpted by the lapping waves of a vanished lake. Illustration: Michael Viney Laois and Offaly, I take it all back

Another Life

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