Michael Viney: Ireland paying high price for invasive species
Introduced species now cost the Republic €200 million a year in damage and control
Obituary: Elinor Wiltshire – photographer, botanist and artist
Her pictures of 1950s Dublin are one of the most popular collections in National Archive
Another Life: The noxious plant that costs Europe €4.5 billion a year
Ragweed, the bane of hay-fever victims, causes half the summer attacks of asthma. It also invades ploughed fields, waysides and wastelands. It’s still rare in Ireland – so root it up before it flowers more widely
Another Life: Airy as spindrift, sharp as knives – and at risk from warmer seas
Five species of tern make Ireland their summer breeding home and nursery. But only intensive management and protection can stave off their inevitable decline
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