Environment
Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Daragh O'Brien has defended his decision to remove, endangered species from open season.
Ospreys have been recorded breeding in Ireland for the first time in over 200 years, Ulster Wildlife has confirmed.
Rural Life
The young white-tailed eagle was found to have been discovered with the insecticide carbofuran, possibly deliberately.
A farmer with an address at Crehelp, Co. Wicklow, was convicted and fined at Carlow District Court this week following the poisoning of protected birds.
