Deposit return schemes encourage people to recycle by giving customers money back when they return containers to the retailer.

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The crisis looks set to extend into the autumn and even the winter.

The proposed development was subject to submissions from rival supermarket chain Tesco.

The German discount supermarket chain has appealed the refusal for the new 10 million euro store to the higher planning body.

A woman is due in court in Athlone this morning after the attempted theft of several hundred euro worth of goods from a Longford town

An Athlone animal charity says it appears that pine martens have significantly increased in the local area in the last few years. Billy Gallagher from