Mr John Gormley, TD, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, has welcomed the decision by the World Heritage Committee at its 32nd Session in Québec, to approve a report from UNESCO on its mission to Skellig Michael World Heritage Site.

Eamón ÓCuiv, TD, Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs officially opened three new forest recreational facilities near Oughterard, Co. Galway.

The RDS Forest Service Irish Forestry Awards for 2008 will be officially launched by the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Tony Killeen TD, at St Columban’s, Dalgan Park, Navan, Co Meath on Wednesday 9 July.

Mr Michael Finneran, TD, Minister for Housing, Urban Renewal, & Developing Areas has launched the Department’s  Architectural Heritage Survey of County Sligo and the associated book - An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of County Sligo.

The Bend of the Boyne - or Brú na Bóinne - is internationally renowned for its elaborate Neolithic passage tombs, containing the largest assemblage of megalithic art in Europe.

Mr. John Gormley, TD, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government addressed the delegates to the 6th World Archaeological Congress (WAC-6) at a State Reception he hosted in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham to mark the event.

Response Group, a leading water and wastewater treatment company, has announced that it is to provide Limerick County Council with remote text alert technology on lifebuoys in the Limerick region.

Last summer, two Galway archaeologists proposed a theory which made worldwide headlines.

A nationwide series of 17 Teagasc forest walks is currently ongoing.