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Garda chief suggests changing law in Laois to tackle sulky racing Reporter:  '); The Laois Garda Chief is suggesting changing the law in Laois to end illegal sulky racing on roads. Garda Chief Superintendent John Scanlon said this week that they are "constantly enforcing legislation" but suggests to Laois county councillors that the law needs updating. "You brought in these bylaws in 2012, I respectfully suggest they need to be revisited. We are dealing with sulky races as we are alerted to them. They are thing that are planned to pop up. We have had operations around the M7 and off the M7....

Thousands of tonnes of microplastic shed from tyres end up in water system Microplastics shed when cars brake end up in water systems where they are thought to harm wildlife Tyres for recycling at a car dismantlers  Credit: Andrew Crowley  Thousands of tonnes of tyre microplastics are washed into UK waters each year, a report has warned, as electric vehicles could make the problem worse. Analysis by waste firm SUEZ and consultancy Soenecs concluded that 63,000 tonnes, the equivalent of 9m standard car tyres, is being shed each year on UK roads, just over half of which ends up in the water s...

John Scanlon of Mount Catherine, Clonlara, Co. Clare A private family funeral for John Scanlon will take place with Requiem Mass in St. Senan’s Church, Clonlara, on Thursday at 11am. Funeral afterwards to Effin Cemetery, Co. Limerick. Beloved husband of the late Philomena, dearly loved father of Annemarie and Siobhain. Sadly missed by his daughters, […]

How our abuse of nature makes pandemics like covid-19 more likely From habitat degradation to squalid animal treatment, our part in allowing “zoonotic” diseases like covid-19 to leap into humans is becoming ever clearer Health 3 March 2021 Selman Hoşgör RELEASED from quarantine in a hotel in Wuhan, China, this January, Peter Daszak made for the wildlife market linked to the first cases of a mystery pneumonia in the closing days of 2019. Back then, the Huanan seafood market was a jostling scrum of stalls ...

Disqualified candidates question legitimacy of Canton’s Democratic executive committee Canton Mayor William Truly, Jr. (Source: WLBT) By Anthony Warren | February 26, 2021 at 6:30 PM CST - Updated February 28 at 7:41 PM CANTON, Miss. (WLBT) - Absentee voting in municipal elections across the Magnolia State is expected to begin Monday. However, that won’t happen in the City of Canton because the Democratic primary ballot has yet to be finalized. Five candidates have been disqualified by the Canton Municipal Democratic Executive Committee to run in the city’s 2021 Democrat...