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An intrepid Polish cave explorer has broken the Irish and British record for navigating the deepest underwater cave in his exploration of a cave in Mayo.

All the world can now see Galway’s problem with blocked drains after one resident of the Sean Mulvoy Road posted footage on YouTube following a rain shower last Friday.

New planning guidelines from the Environment Minister John Gormley will not prevent councillors from zoning flood plains for development, Labour TD Michael D Higgins has warned.

Fianna Fáil TD Dara Calleary has announced funding of €236,250 for piers and harbours within the constituency under the 2008 Clár Coastal Development Scheme.

Carlow town councillors have agreed to write to Environment Minister John Gormley in an effort to recoup the €70,000 the local authority spent dealing with floods this year.

The proposed new N4 route corridor between Mullingar and Roosky will threaten the existence of several Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) and National Heritage Areas (NHAs) of European importance, according to a speaker at a public meeting in Multyfarnham on Tuesday night.

The African country of Ethiopia consistently ranks among the poorest in the world. Since 1984, when pictures of desperate famine raced around the world, the country has become a byword for poverty. But when journalist Liam Horan visited recently with Irish humanitarian agency Self Help Africa, he was pleasantly surprised to find many signs of progress. Here he focuses on the work of the agency as it tries to bring about improvements in the lives of people accustomed to living on the edge.

IFA SAC project team chairman Michael Silke said that the decision by the Minister for Environment John Gormley to allow an extension of turf cutting on 33 designated SAC bogs for 2009 was inevitable given the very strong reaction of bog owners to the planned restrictions of turf cutting this year.

Local TD Denis Naughten has welcomed what he is calling the “climb-down” by the Minister for the Environment on the proposed ban on turf cutting on bogs until the end of the year.