When you read headlines highlighting that raw sewage continues to flow into our waters at 43 urban areas across Ireland (The Irish Times, November 23, 2016), the scale of the problem facing Irish Water is clear. For decades, untreated wastewater has been discharged into our rivers and seas at towns and villages from Howth in Dublin to Kilmore Quay in Wexford and Ballyvaughan in Co Clare. This is a nationwide problem and Irish Water is committed to addressing it and ensuring that these 43 ...

The development of the US Interstate Highway System was the largest civil engineering project in the world with a final cost of more than €100 billion. Although a number of limited access, dual carriageway roads were built in the US during the 1920s and 1930s, the genesis for the creation of the Interstates was the end of the Second World War, when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, Dwight D Eisenhower saw the German Autobahn system in 1945 which influenced his thoughts towards ...

On 31 May 2017, President Higgins took part in a ceremony to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the laying of the first stone for the construction of Dún Laoghaire harbour. Many other events took place in the bicentenary year, commemorating a construction project that was one of the largest of its day in Ireland. [caption id="attachment_39559" align="alignleft" width="300"] Vallancey's pier of the 1760s[/caption] There has been a harbour at Dún Laoghaire, then called Dunleary, since ...

Dredging work to deepen the harbour basin and channel into Dublin Port as part of the Alexandra Basin Redevelopment Project has begun in recent months. The €230 million project involves the construction of approximately 3km of quay walls, deepening of the harbour basin and channel to accommodate larger seagoing vessels, as well as works associated with the conservation of the port’s Victorian industrial heritage. A comprehensive environmental monitoring programme has been established, ...

The beginning of the 20th century was a seismic historical period in which advances were made in philosophy, political thinking, science, literature, engineering and equality. In particular, gradual strides in female equality were made in accessing third-level education (for those that could afford it) and subsequently in employment. As these ground-breaking women entered the workforce, they proved more than equal to their male counterparts. At first, this manifested itself by way of the ...

The M7 Newbridge Bypass scheme consisted of the construction of 12 kilometres of motorway between the M7 Naas Bypass and the dual carriageway across the Curragh Plains. The scheme provided congestion relief for Newbridge town, which was experiencing traffic flows of over 30,000 vehicles per day due to its location on the Dublin to Cork and Limerick routes. The scheme was also supported by the European Social Development Fund to enhance access to Ireland within Europe. The selection of a ...