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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

Protestors outside the Dail campaigning against the sale of Coillte harvesting rights. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons Sweden had to reverse privatisation of State forestry, expert says

Scandinavian state’s experience a “mistake” ahead of Cabinet’s decision on Coillte’s harvesting rights

Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar has signed the first contract relating to construction work on the €368 million Luas extension. Photograph: Alan Betson/ The Irish Times. Construction work on Luas extension to begin next month

New website to provide details of disruption caused in city by €368m project

The new Bridge linking Burgh Quay and Marlborough Street under construction over the River Liffey .Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times Council reveals contenders for name of Liffey bridge

Authors Oscar Wilde, WB Yeats, Bram Stoker and scientist Ernest Walton among 17

Simon Coveney: brokered a compromise text Mixed reaction to Europe’s new common fisheries policy

European Parliament must sign off on final deal brokered under Irish presidency

Planning regulator must have investigative powers

Opinion: The Mahon tribunal specified a quasi-judicial role for the watchdog. Without this, the post will lack necessary teeth

New rules, approved by Dublin City Councillors this week, require all householders and businesses to have their waste collected by “an approved collector” or disposed of at a proper waste facility Dubliners will have to prove how they dispose of waste

Restrictions will also be placed on waste collectors

From January 1st next year all statutory responsibilities for water services, together with all water and sewage infrastructure currently controlled by local authorities, will transfer to Irish Water. Dublin businesses may have to pay more for water

No agreement on Irish Water principles ahead of June deadline

Fianna Fáil agriculture spokesman Éamon Ó Cuív said the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture found itself in a “farcical situation” in relation to the proposed sale of Coillte’s harvesting rights. Photograph Brenda Fitzsimons Sale of Coillte tree-harvesting rights would raise ‘a few grains of sand in a desert of debt’, committee told

Decision on proposed sale expected next week

Rubbish dumped at a beach in Wicklow. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times Northern Ireland beaches ‘most littered’

UK marine conservation survey finds some 8,224 items of rubbish per kilometre of sand

Workers preparing the Poolbeg incinerator site in January 2010. Photograph: Cyril Byrne Poolbeg incinerator construction expected to start within weeks

Dublin authorities’ private sector partner Covanta ‘in a position to proceed by mid-summer’

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Research has found some cockroaches avoid traps baited with glucose to avoid poisoning. Photograph: Getty Images Cockroaches lose ‘sweet tooth’ to evade traps
Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar Nama-funded road links N2 and N3
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Murvagh Beach, near Donegal town. Photograph: Frank Miller/The Irish Times Hogan 'concerned' over loss of Blue Flags at some beaches
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

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