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Michael Healy-Rae is the Dáil’s biggest landlord with up to 10 rental properties.

Michael Healy-Rae turned down for permission for apartments in pub

‘Serious concerns about the nature and extent of development for this site’ – Bord Pleanála

The memorial gardens at Islandbridge. The new bridge will not reach as far as Phoenix Park but a new pedestrian crossing is expected to be introduced, linking bridge and park via existing cycleways. File photograph: Matt Kavanagh

Pedestrian bridge to finally span Liffey at Islandbridge

Lutyens’s design as part of his Irish National War Memorial Gardens has March deadline

Bord na Móna not ‘climate change deniers’ over impact of peat

Semi-State firm last month said over 400 jobs to go as it seeks to reduce carbon footprint

Rainfall is expected to be heaviest on high ground and mountains File photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times

Rainfall warning issued for Cork and Kerry with heavy downfalls expected

Worst rain forecast for high ground and mountains, cold turn expected next week

This is one of Belfast Zoo’s first chicks since it became home to Chilean flamingos in 2010

Belfast Zoo welcomes baby flamingos after breeding breakthrough

Popcorn and Peanut are zoo’s first chicks since it became home to Chilean flamingos in 2010

Green Party: Pippa Hackett, Eamon Ryan and Grace O’Sullivan. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

Bill would help workers hit by move from fossil to green economy

Green Party legislation would help 500 Bord na Móna workers set to lose jobs in midlands

Missing tree rings is a known phenomenon

Why is my monkey puzzle tree missing some tree rings?

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Weather warnings have been issued across the country. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

Flights delayed due to heavy winds and rain

Friday alerts in place for counties in Leinster, Munster and Connacht

Owner-occupiers, tenants and landlords at the College Gate apartment complex have formed the Save College Gate group in an attempt to prevent the demolition of their homes. Photograph: Aidan Crawley

Community pledges ‘major fight’ against Markievicz pool and apartments demolition

Townsend Street block demolition proposed for Metrolink

Residents of College Gate Apartments in Townsend Street, Dublin, protesting in September over the planned demolition. Photograph: Tom Honan

Campaign to save Dublin buildings from MetroLink demolition steps up

Swimming pool and apartments on Townsend Street are due for demolition for rail line

An image from a rare shark nursery filmed 200 nautical miles west of Ireland by Irish and British scientists in one of six offshore special areas of conservation.

Baby sharks: Rare shark nursery found off west coast of Ireland

Scientists believe they have identified area where female sharks lay eggs

Richard Bruton: ‘I want to make Ireland a leader in responding to climate change, not a follower’. File photograph: Tom Honan

Threat of climate change requires ‘revolution in how we live’, says Bruton

New Minister for Climate Action wants to make Ireland a leader in its response

The proposed development of Merchant’s Arch Bar would lead to an “overconcentration” of licensed premises in Temple Bar, An Bord Pleanála said. Photograph: Alan Betson

Plan for Temple Bar ‘superpub’ in historic building refused

Merchant’s Arch Bar one of last remaining guildhall buildings in Dublin

The former model school on Church Avenue in Glasnevin sold for €870,000.

Dublin sites owned by OPW sell for €5.6 million at auction

Councillors had called for sites to be retained by State

Over the past five years the coastline of Portrane’s Burrow peninsula has receded by as much as 20m in sections, with major storms taking chunks of land. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons

Protective wall to be put on Portrane beach to protect homes from erosion

Authorities say wall is only a temporary ‘emergency’ defence as they battle to find a longer-term solution to rapid coastal erosion

“The commercial development of wave energy converters is moving towards reality and is led by an Irish company, Ocean Energy.” Photograph; Getty Images

Conference told ocean waves a major resource of untapped renewable energy

‘Second Shannon scheme’ could be an offshore wave-power station off the Clare coast with a future extension off Kerry’

Dublin City Council’s head of traffic said there was an “urgent need” to reconfigure College Green to take account of increased numbers of pedestrians and cyclists “and the new requirement to cater for 55m-long Luas cross-city trams”.

College Green plaza must not be abandoned, Dublin city councillors say

Council considering seeking judicial review of plaza refusal

Stéphane Crouzat, French ambassador to Ireland, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, an indigenous woman from the Mbororo pastoralist community of Chad, and Mary Robinson, president of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice at the climate change conference in Trinity College, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill

Robinson says communities who have depended on bogs need to be protected

Former president urges every citizen to make the climate issue personal; to recycle, to reuse and to look at their consumption

Images of the plastic pieces found on the shore at Dún Laoghaire and Sandycove show tiny lengths of thin, flexible material about the length of a little finger. Photograph: Gráinne Grehan

Clean-up after 70kg of plastic found along south Dublin coast

Specialist team working on recovery of strips used in restoration of Dún Laoghaire Baths

The audit was conducted last March in Killybegs, Co Donegal, where the largest volume of fish is landed

EU critical of ‘severe’ weaknesses in Ireland’s fisheries controls

Draft audit highlights flaws in controlling factories and mackerel and herring fleet

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