Mr John Gormley, TD, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government addressed the sixth annual Historic Houses of Ireland Conference held in the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

The Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Mr John Gormley, T.D. has launched his Department’s  Architectural Heritage Survey of Limerick City and the associated book - An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of Limerick City.

The Sixth World Archaeological Congress (WAC-6) will be held in Dublin, from 29th June to 4th July 2008.

Heritage Week 2008 will run from 24th August to 31st August 2008 - a week-long celebration of who we are and where we’ve come from.

The week of 20–24 October 2008 will be European forest week, with the theme - Working together for sustainable forest management in Europe.

The Irish Independent has reported that a new forestry fund has just been launched promising a mouthwatering annual return of 8.2pc.

WYG Ireland, consultant to the built, natural and social environment will hold an important seminar on the topic of health and safety for senior executives in the construction industry on Tuesday, 17 June at 9.30am in the Westin Hotel, Dublin.

Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Mr. John Gormley, T.D. has endorsed the Final Report of the Working Group on the future preservation and archaeological investigation of the Viking Age national monument at Woodstown, Co. Waterford.

Good silvicultural decision-making and planning require knowledge of the growth of tree species across the full range of forest sites in Ireland.

If the recent trends of high net inward migration and relatively high fertility rates were to broadly continue, then Ireland's population - which, according to the 2006 census, stood at 4.25 million - would reach 5 million by 2014.