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# Radon

Last year
2022
# EPA
170,000 homes across Ireland thought to be at risk from Radon gas, EPA says
The gas is linked to around 350 new cases of lung cancer in Ireland every year.
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May 26th 2022, 6:00 AM
All time
Voices
Opinion: Radon kills thousands in Ireland but the gas is completely preventable
EcoEye producer Marcus Stewart explains how some straightforward policy moves can bring deaths from the radioactive gas under control.
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May 15th 2021, 6:30 PM
# Renting
'Why is the government ignoring the risk of radon to tenants?'
Radon is the principal source of radiation exposure, making up 56% of the overall dose received in Ireland.
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May 13th 2018, 6:15 AM
# Toxic
People living in areas of high radon exposure at higher risk of lung cancer
The ESRI has linked cancer figures with geographical data on radon gas.
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Feb 8th 2018, 9:24 AM
# deer lodge
Cancer-causing radon at 2.5 times acceptable limit found at Kerry mental health home
The Deer Lodge facility in Killarney was opened at a cost of €13 million.
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Dec 27th 2017, 12:00 PM
# Hidden gas
460,000 people in Ireland could be exposed to cancer-causing radon
Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas, which does not have a taste, odour or colour.
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May 23rd 2017, 10:21 PM
# hotspot
Warning to locals as high rates of cancer-causing radioactive gas discovered in Galway
Up to 250 radon-related lung cancer cases are diagnosed in Ireland each year.
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Feb 28th 2017, 1:45 PM
# Radiation
Radon levels 24 times the accepted level found in house
That’s the radiation equivalent of getting 17 chest X-rays every day.
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Nov 28th 2016, 8:14 PM
# Fallout
30 years on: The impact of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Three decades on from the disaster, we take a look at the effect it had on Ireland – and how we’re facing a much greater threat to our health already.
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Apr 26th 2016, 6:45 AM
# cancer-causing
Over 90,000 homes may have 'dangerous levels' of radon gas... just 8% have been checked
The radioactive gas is linked to 250 cases of lung cancer every year in Ireland.
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Jul 4th 2014, 7:14 PM
# tackling cancer
Selling your home? You might have to test it for radon
A new report from the Department of Environment makes the suggestion as part of the effort to tackle the cancer-causing gas.
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Feb 17th 2014, 2:24 PM
# its grand
Calm down: Higher radiation levels at Sellafield were just 'background radon'
All non-essential staff at the site were asked not to report to work this morning because of the elevated radiation levels detected overnight.
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Jan 31st 2014, 6:34 PM
# Prime Numbers
Twitter, Toronto mayor and mystery GPO woman: The week in numbers
Plus: how much will the average household spend on Christmas this year?
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Nov 9th 2013, 7:30 PM
# cancer danger
Cancer-causing radon found in over 430 Irish homes
One home in Tralee was found to have 26 times the acceptable level of radon.
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Nov 8th 2013, 9:15 PM
# risk factor
Even low levels of air pollution can lead to lung cancer, major new study shows
Researchers found that there was “no threshold below which there was no risk” in a major study of 300,000 people.
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Jul 10th 2013, 6:45 AM
# radon alert
Cancer-causing radon gas found in 341 homes
Occupiers of one home in Galway receiving the equivalent of 13 chest x-rays a day from the gas.
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Jun 28th 2012, 9:50 PM
# Radon
321 homes register high levels of radon gas - report
The Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland says that one home in Co Galway had an average radon concentration of 18 times the acceptable level.
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Jan 27th 2012, 11:42 AM
# Radon
Radon gas contamination to be tackled by expert group
Hundreds of homes around Ireland are believed to contain unsafe levels of radon, which is radioactive and carcinogenic.
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Nov 25th 2011, 8:41 AM
# Radon
Dangerous quantities of carcinogenic gas detected in Kerry home
The house in Castleisland contains radon levels 185 times greater than the safe limit – one of the highest concentrations ever found in Europe.
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Jun 16th 2011, 8:54 AM
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things to know this morning, including: the ECB mulls over Ireland’s plan to burn Anglo bondholders, the government’s 100th day in power, and a longstanding Bloomsday riddle is finally solved…
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Jun 16th 2011, 8:37 AM