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The Health and Safety Authority and gardaí have opened separate investigations into a farm accident in west Cork yesterday in which a 14 year old boy was killed.

The boy was fatally injured when he became trapped between a Hymac digger and a wall on the farm near Church Cross near Skibbereen at about 6pm

The Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government in conjunction with the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resource - intends to undertake a technical update of the guidance on noise (including separation distance) and shadow flicker in the Wind Energy Development Guidelines 2006.

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The adoption of sustainable packaging strategies such as material minimisation and lightweighting may be doing more harm than good, experts have warned. 

According to latest thinking in this field, issues of product protection and durability need to come to the fore so packaging methods can reduce both environmen