TOBIN have announced the appointment of Mr. Brian Allum as UK Country Manager, with effect from 3rd January 2012.

Richard Bruton, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, together with The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Andrew Montague and comedian Dara O'Briain, last week launched Dublin City of Science.

Green-Schools, the hugely successful international environmental education programme administered in Ireland by An Taisce, has launched a brand new website in Larkin Community College, which was awarded their first Green Flag last year.

The 17th Mid-West Regional Authority (MWRA) Annual Conference 2012 will take place on 16th & 17th February 2012 at The Falls Hotel, Ennistymon, Co. Clare.

Oil and gas multinational Shell has injected €90 million into its Irish subsidiary to deal with the spiralling costs of the Corrib gas field project.

NTR’s US wind energy arm has closed a deal with a group of international institutions that will allow it to borrow €270 million to fund a project in Kansas.

A Kerry superloo is costing a town council €38,000 a year - but only generates €650 in revenue.

A plan to build a plutonium-burning reactor at Sellafield in Cumbria has been rejected by the UK government's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).

Donald Trump is on the brink of abandoning his plans for the "world's greatest golf course" near Aberdeen after claiming his £750m project is being threatened by an offshore windfarm.

The European Commission has launched a new instrument to help companies that are developing innovative environmental technologies.

A Limeric technology firm has announced that it will double its workforce to 130 employees over the next three years.

Shell EP Ireland has received a written warning from the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources over breaches of conditions regarding the construction of its pipeline at its Corrib gas site at Aughoose, northwest Mayo.

Industrial services group DCC has said its earnings would be weaker than expected due to an "exceptionally mild" winter, continuing economic conditions and high oil prices.

Mainstream Renewable Power, the company headed by Eddie O'Connor, has raised €40m from Irish investors and institutions according to the Irish Independent.

Pre-tax losses at French company JCDecaux, that has a host of deals with local authorities over the operation of 'superloos', doubled in 2010 to €130,595.

Smart meter specialist Landis+Gyr has completed its first acquisition since it was purchased by technology giant Toshiba, shelling out an undisclosed sum for US-based meter data management software firm Ecologic Analytics.