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Indications of waste water discharges into Dublin’s River Liffey at Ringsend on Sunday

Untreated waste water released into Dublin Bay during storm

Treatment plant reached capacity limit due to heavy rainfall, says local politician

Irish Water: the EPA criticises persistent delays on infrastructure projects. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

EPA criticises Irish Water for sewage treatment failures in Dublin and Cork

Raw sewage discharges likely to continue in 31 areas into 2021

The EPA says waste water is one of the main threats to water quality in Ireland. Photograph: Getty Images

Waste-water plants in 50 Irish towns and cities breach EU limits

EPA says failure to tackle sewage-treatment deficiencies poses unacceptable risks

ESB Networks has now restored power to over 370,000 people who suffered an outage following Ophelia.

Storm Ophelia: Efforts to restore power to 2,000 resumes

ESB Networks hopes to have full service restored by the middle of this week

A total of 1,000 farmers will have participated in the programme by the end of 2017, with detailed resource efficiency assessments completed on 38 farms. Photograph: Oktay Ortakcioglu/E+/Getty

Irish smart farming has cut carbon emissions by 10 per cent

New initiative is good for environment and saves an average of €8,700 per farm

All Green Line services are operating normally. File photograph: David Sleator/The Irish Times

No Luas running between Busáras and the Point

Company halts trams between stops due to Garda directive but rest of service unchanged

Tree surgeon James Moran working on a fallen tree at Bayswater Terrace, Sandycove during Storm Ophelia. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

Storm Ophelia: Efforts to restore power to 6,000 resume

Repair crews were hampered by heavy rain and high winds during Storm Brian

Sinead Murphy looks out of her house in Kinvara, Co Galway on Saturdat as Storm Brian hit Ireland. Photograph: PA

Storm Brian: clean-up begins after flooding and high winds

Motorists advised to reduce speed on local roads where there may be spot flooding

Clean-up is under way as water levels fall on the River Shannon Photograph: Limerick Leader

Storm Brian: How is it impacting on your area?

Parts of Limerick are flooded as powerful winds continue to batter the country

A man runs out to a diving board in Salthill, Galway, during Storm Ophelia. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Should we punish ‘reckless’ people who need to be rescued?

People shouldn’t ignore warnings but prosecuting or charging could prove dangerous

Chanterelle mushroom

Nature Diary: It’s the time of year for mushroom foraging

The trick is to learn which trees specific mushrooms grow under

The sea orange sponge, Suberites ficus

Eye on Nature: Your notes and queries for Ethna Viney

Sea orange sponge, rose chafer beetle and the poisonous fly agaric, Amanita muscaria

Architects’ illustration of the proposed handball centre development at Croke Park.

Croke Park handball centre gets go-ahead after 28-year battle

Planning permission follows dispute with residents and mediation from Bertie Ahern

Construction at Grand Canal Dock in Dublin. The housing problem “offers the potential for spectacular failure if policy interventions are inappropriate”, Dublin City Council chief executive Owen Keegan said. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons

Minister’s plan to lift building height cap will backfire, experts warn

Constant changes to policy lead to market uncertainty, Housing Agency chair says

Green Party councillor Ciarán Cuffe: “There is plenty of land to develop on, or housing capacity to be added, without threatening parks.”

Green areas in suburbs ripe for housing - Dublin city chief

Owen Keegan urges apartment construction on 'useless spaces’ in Dublin housing estates

Sean Hogan from the National Emergency Co-ordination Group said severe coastal and river flooding was unlikely. Photograph: Dave Meehan/The Irish Times

Storm Brian ‘just a run of the mill storm,’ says Hogan

Director of emergency planning says predicted weather conditions ‘not exceptional’

Dublin needed more homes, at higher densities, he said, but existing homeowners were not supportive of measures needed to provide these homes. Photograph: iStock

Use Dublin’s green spaces to build homes, says city chief

Dublin City Council chief questions amenity value of much of city’s green space

Dublin City Council CEO Owen Keegan: said resistance to high-density and high-rise developments displayed a “lack of inter-generational solidarity”. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons

Owen Keegan: Homeowners holding Dublin to low-rise ‘ransom’

Residents blocking high-density housing and high-rise apartments, says council chief

With almost 80 per cent of Europeans expected to be living in urban areas within the next 30 years, the importance of city green space must not be underestimated, Dr Collier said. Photographer: Dara Mac Dónaill

Green spaces in cities must be improved, says TCD academic

Dr Marcus Collier: housing should go upwards rather than expanding into green areas

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar (left) meets Pat O’Doherty and John McManus of ESB Networks in Kilcock on Tuesday. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Storm Ophelia power repairs ‘could take until next week’

About 50,000 customers remain without power following extensive storm damage

Storm Brian tracks up the west coast of Ireland on Saturday morning. Photograph: windy.com

Storm Brian to bring severe winds and coastal flooding this weekend

Rainfall warning is also in place on Thursday for counties in Munster and much of Leinster

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