No sign of €50m fund for entertainment sector five months after budgetSenators highlight mental effect of lockdown on musicians and artists unable to performFri Mar 05 2021 - 16:56
Labour Bill seeks to give adopted people right to birth informationLegislation would reverse State policy ‘overly skewed towards privacy rights’, Bacik saysFri Mar 05 2021 - 14:35
Agency required to establish number of unidentified bodies in State, says TDDáil hears families of missing people must contact individual coroners and cemeteriesFri Mar 05 2021 - 07:09
Sharp Dáil exchanges during debate on land agency BillMore bankers on 12-member board than women, says Green Party’s Neasa HouriganThu Mar 04 2021 - 21:22
Vaccination of ‘high risk’ citizens against Covid-19 to begin next week, Dáil hearsStephen Donnelly expresses ‘serious concern’ about reliability of AstraZeneca deliveryThu Mar 04 2021 - 15:46
Tánaiste appeals for ‘patience with HSE’ in ‘long road ahead’ for vaccinationVaradkar says family carers should be prioritised after top two priority groupsThu Mar 04 2021 - 13:25
Opposition TDs accuse Davy stockbrokers of corruption and ‘white-collar crime’Pressure on NTMA to cut ties with firm over failure to hold individuals accountable for breachesWed Mar 03 2021 - 21:03
Varadkar criticises Green TD’s High Court Ceta challengePatrick Costello raises concerns over Government’s plan to ratify trade agreementWed Mar 03 2021 - 20:06
Micheál Martin describes issue of illegal adoption as ‘shocking’Adoption-tracing legislation needed, says expert, as case studies to go before CabinetWed Mar 03 2021 - 17:23
Troops to be vaccinated before overseas deployment after Taoiseach’s interventionMartin criticised for failure to move family carers up priority list to receive jabWed Mar 03 2021 - 16:00
Sinn Féin accused of fixation on ‘Trump-style hysteria’ by Minister in housing rowDarragh O’Brien under pressure amid SF motion to drop shared-equity proposalWed Mar 03 2021 - 14:28
Lives Lost to Covid-19: Flora Brennock radiated positivity and loved artFlora had a great welcome for everyone and was renowned for her caring attitudeWed Mar 03 2021 - 06:00
Quarantine hotels to rely on private security firms for rules enforcementGardaí will not escort passengers from airport or stay on site, Garda management saysTue Mar 02 2021 - 01:00
Midlands must not become ‘rust belt’ after power plant closuresSeanad told that due to absence of peat from Irish sources, industry will have to import itMon Mar 01 2021 - 21:06
Zero Covid plan would mean 2km limit and closing all schools - DonnellyMinister cites ‘whiff of xenophobia’ in debate on mandatory hotel quarantiningMon Mar 01 2021 - 18:10
Senators criticise Bank of Ireland over ‘cynical’ move to close branchesSenator Timmy Dooley says the closure of 103 branches is ‘appalling kick in the teeth’Mon Mar 01 2021 - 14:27
Protest marks end of mother and baby homes commission’s termAcademic warns against delaying release of recordings of survivors’ testimoniesSat Feb 27 2021 - 20:01
Target of 10 Covid-19 cases a day needed to avoid fourth lockdown, says ShortallCo-leaders outline party goals at online Social Democrats national conferenceSat Feb 27 2021 - 17:14
Construction sector ‘spin’ must be challenged, Soc Dems conference toldProf Orla Hegarty highlights need for ‘missing middle’ properties in IrelandSat Feb 27 2021 - 15:08
Housing Agency ‘crucial’ to accommodating asylum seekers, Minister saysContracts for direct provision centres may be extended during transition, O’Gorman saysFri Feb 26 2021 - 20:19
HSE allocated over €700,000 to charity with no audited accounts since 2019, Seanad toldHealth body criticised in the Seanad but Senator Ronan Mullen did not name charityFri Feb 26 2021 - 20:09
No guarantee all children will be back in school by mid-April, Ryan warnsReturn depends on ‘continued effort of all our citizens’, says MinisterFri Feb 26 2021 - 18:21
Lives Lost to Covid-19: The vaccine offer arrived two days after Eileen’s funeralMarried to Hugh for 63 years, Eileen Gallagher was a loving mother and grandmotherFri Feb 26 2021 - 09:00
Covid-19 vaccine rollout defended by HSE amid claims of queue jumpingDáil hears claims some childcare providers were vaccinated early; GPs raise concernsFri Feb 26 2021 - 01:00
Minister says 9,000 fines issued for Covid-19 rule breachesSF tells Dáil that ‘Micheál and Leo show’ having an impact on public’s mental healthThu Feb 25 2021 - 20:48
Dáil told of childcare provider staff vaccinated ahead of timeService in Wexford may have exerted pressure on the HSE, says Labour Party leaderThu Feb 25 2021 - 19:18
Mother and baby homes: Complaints made over handling of testimoniesWitnesses’ access to accounts among problems that are ‘hard to unpick’, says data regulatorThu Feb 25 2021 - 00:01
Hotel isolation for 20 states excludes US, UK where cases ‘rampant’Bill comprises radical action that strikes ‘fair, proportionate balance’, Donnelly tells DáilWed Feb 24 2021 - 23:22
TD accuses PSNI of ‘failure of action’ over Belfast teen’s deathPolice signalled corporate manslaughter inquiry into Noah Donohoe’s demise this monthWed Feb 24 2021 - 20:43
Labour leader brands Living with Covid plan ‘laughable’Kelly accused of populism after noting arrival of 2,000 Brazilians during 5km restrictionWed Feb 24 2021 - 15:22
Gabriel Scally not ‘dumped’ from CervicalCheck reformPublic health expert to provide one final report on implementation plan, Department of Health confirmsWed Feb 24 2021 - 14:42
Mother and baby homes commission will be dissolved at end of week, Minister confirms‘Miraculous recovery of tapes from back of couch’ has to be investigated, says WhitmoreWed Feb 24 2021 - 13:13
Councillors to get €8,000 pay increase soon, junior minister pledgesGovernment accused of ‘unforgivable heel-dragging’ on the issue in Seanad debateMon Feb 22 2021 - 23:00
Growing links between Irish and Chinese universities must be examined, Senator saysRónán Mullen urges Government to act amid concerns over human rights issues in ChinaMon Feb 22 2021 - 21:55
Fine Gael Senator calls for exemption to 5km travel limit for golfers and sea swimmersIndependent Senator says Covid-19 restrictions are a ‘dystopian vision of living’Mon Feb 22 2021 - 16:41
Plan to convert Georgian House Museum to deluxe housing refusedPlan ‘would set an undesirable precedent for loss of cultural facilities’ – Dublin City CouncilSat Feb 20 2021 - 17:45
Transcripts of all mother and baby home testimonies availableO’Gorman says disaster recovery tapes may contain the recordings of 549 survivorsSat Feb 20 2021 - 01:00
An Bord Pleanála criticised for delay in online planning systemSystem still not in place, five years after Government housing strategy pledgeFri Feb 19 2021 - 21:00
Sinn Féin councillor says criticism of IRA bomber commemoration is ‘nonsense’Planned online event for Edward O’Brien, who died in ‘bus bomb’, was ‘shocking says ex-ministerFri Feb 19 2021 - 19:49
Mother and Baby Home Commission finds back-up ‘disaster recovery’ tapesMinister for Children hopes recordings will contain audio files of survivor testimonyFri Feb 19 2021 - 15:27
Mother and Baby Homes Commission tells Minister it cannot retrieve destroyed tapesO’Gorman said he wants to ‘conclusively ascertain’ if technical solution possible to recover dataThu Feb 18 2021 - 22:56
Covid-19: 47 more deaths confirmed as Nphet says 25% of cases are not fully investigatedRonan Glynn says public health team ‘really wants’ focus on retrospective contact tracingThu Feb 18 2021 - 22:29
Limerick gangs running ‘non-stop drugs supermarket’TD seeks urgent intervention in city to prevent return to ‘very dark days’Thu Feb 18 2021 - 19:35
PTSB and AIB set to disclose Ulster Bank loan book talksState holds majority share in both banks and may see PTSB as ‘third force’Thu Feb 18 2021 - 18:40
Government classifying key workers to determine priority for vaccineDepartments asked to submit list of professions that may be prioritised for dosesThu Feb 18 2021 - 15:19
Those flouting hotel quarantine rules could face fines of up to €4,000Exiting quarantine after 10 days may be permitted with a negative Covid testWed Feb 17 2021 - 23:09
Meat plants may not be enforcing quarantine for workers flown into Ireland, Dáil toldMinister calls for breaches ‘to be reported immediately’Wed Feb 17 2021 - 20:27
Taoiseach rejects call for cancellation of Leaving Cert examsUniversity place cannot be offered to all but additional places will be found, Dáil hearsWed Feb 17 2021 - 16:02
Minister to get priority vaccination review resultsTaoiseach says not a political matter as SF calls for family carers to move up listWed Feb 17 2021 - 14:05
Halting ‘price gouging’ of insurance customers could take another year, Dáil toldSinn Féin introduces Bill based on British legislation to end ‘loyalty penalty’Wed Feb 17 2021 - 12:51
