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Common cranes which set up home on a rewetted Bord na Móna Midlands peatland earlier this year successfully hatched two baby chicks in May, the first recorded birth of Crane chicks in Ireland in over 300 years.

BMW has for the first time in Ireland launched its eDrive Zone technology, a new digital service, which it claims automatically switches a plug-in hybrid vehicle to electric-only power when it enters a defined area of a city.

As Halloween fast approaches, Athlone Deputy Mayor, Cllr Aengus O’Rourke, has called for the eradication of bonfires within the local community.

ALONE, the organisation that supports older people to age at home, has called on government to extend the Fuel Allowance season to 32-weeks and increase the payment by €4 per week.

Sensors and flashing warning lights are to be considered as possible deterrents to wrong-way driving on the motorways, with the growing phenomenon raised by concerned gardai and councillors in the county this week.

As part of a drive towards zero emission vehicles, the Galway City Council has this week deployed eight fully-electric vans.

Two former Connacht Rugby players are taking to the road on Saturday to raise much-needed funds for Rare Diseases Ireland.

Irish businesses must rethink the role of plastic in their operations and significantly increase their efforts to eradicate plastic pollution and its impact on the world’s oceans, according to award-winning Science, Natural History and Environmental broadcaster Liz Bonnin.