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To boost conservation efforts on the Lower River Lee in Cork, the total amount of Atlantic salmon available for ‘harvesting’ by anglers is 152 fish for the 2022 season.
Angling Notes: ‘Brown tag’ regulations on River Lee to boost conservation efforts

To boost conservation efforts, anglers who wish to catch and keep wild salmon from the Lower River Lee in Cork this year, are being advised that ‘brow(...)

Connecting the residences of 1.1 million people, 54,000 farms and 44,000 businesses in a system that will be seen on virtually every metre of every rural road. Photograph: iStock
Big money in play as broadband rollout gets under way throughout State

TJ Malone points to hoops of pristine white cable hanging from telegraph posts as he drives up a narrow boreen near Blessington, Co Wicklow, with gras(...)

Magpie – does it sleep in a tree?
Where do magpies sleep? Readers’ nature queries

This magpie sleeps on a thin bar under my roof. He clearly stays alert so that he does not fall off the bar. I would think it is a strange place to sl(...)

‘We do not have enough judges to provide the sort of service we would like to provide and that the country deserves,’ says Judge Paul Kelly, President of the District Court. Photograph: Laura Hutton
Inside Ireland’s District Courts: ‘If alcohol disappeared overnight, the courts could close’

The lowest and busiest tier of the courts structure, the District Court is the workhorse of the courts system representing all human life – when it(...)

Mythology blended into archaeology in the aura of this strange place, with physical signatures of old Iron Age dwellings and ramparts giving some credence to the stories we listened to. Photograph: Michael Guilfoyle
Northwest Donegal: We heard myth, folklore and history, and couldn’t tell the difference

The west coast of Ireland in winter is in many ways a different land, a land more open to the elements which shaped its landscape and people, sculptin(...)

The data raised a number of issues and exposed a traffic penalty system in need of greater consistency and cohesion, said Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy.
No reasons recorded for low rates of successful speeding prosecutions

Fewer than one in five people prosecuted in court for speeding offences are being convicted, new data shows. With a national average of just over 16(...)

Minister for Public Expenditure Michael McGrath said it was ‘simply not possible’ to extend the bonus to other workers, such as carers, due to financial constraints. Photograph: iStock
GRA calls for pandemic bonus to be extended to gardaí

Agency workers such as cleaners, nurses and paramedics in public hospitals who were contracted or seconded to the HSE during the Covid-19 pandemic wil(...)

Carrick on Shannon in Co Leitrim. The county had the highest residential vacancy and dereliction rate at 16 per cent of properties, the NWRA report found. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Almost 45,000 properties lie empty in west, northwest and Border area

There are almost 45,000 empty homes and commercial properties in the west, northwest and Border region, according to new analysis on the area with th(...)

Anne Rabbitte, Minister of State with responsibility for Disability, said she had hoped to be in a position to publish the full report but this did not seem possible.
Not possible to publish full Brandon report, AG advises Minister

The Attorney General has advised that it is not possible to publish the full report carried out into sustained sexual abuse of intellectually disabled(...)

Gardaí said a postmortem had been completed by the Office of the State Pathologist, the results of which were not being released for operational purposes. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Gardaí treating death of man in Donegal as personal tragedy

Gardaí are continuing to investigate all the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the body of a man in his 50s in Co Donegal on Friday evening. (...)

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