Health service to get record €27.4bn for extra beds and 3,300 more staffChambers says there will be 220 additional acute beds but greater focus on productivity in health sector next yearTue Oct 07 2025 - 16:56
Trump administration wants Irish Government to press EU for more political speech protectionsWashington believes government bans on disinformation or hate speech are generally not permissibleTue Oct 07 2025 - 06:00
TG4 board seeks pay rise for its director generalIrish language broadcaster says salary for its ard-stiúrthóir has not increased in nearly a decadeMon Oct 06 2025 - 10:00
A year after the €330,000 Dáil bike shed, is there still a ‘money doesn’t matter’ culture?Office of Public Works insists new structures are now in place to protect against overspending but critics are not so sureMon Oct 06 2025 - 06:00
Ship seized in largest cocaine haul now costing the State €110,000 per weekMoored in the port of Cork, MV Matthew is considered an environmental, ecological and economic risk Sun Oct 05 2025 - 06:00
‘Enabling’ works on MetroLink could start in 2027, says MinisterDarragh O’Brien says two consortiums have confirmed they will bid for the projectFri Oct 03 2025 - 06:00
Two consortiums will bid to build long-awaited MetroLink Dublin line expected to begin operating in mid-2030s, providing 20-minute airport-to-city journeysThu Oct 02 2025 - 19:17
Budget 2026: No changes to personal income tax plannedProposed €9.4bn package ‘poses a risk of overheating the economy’, oversight committee warnsThu Oct 02 2025 - 06:00
St Vincent's in Dublin among hospitals where Minister has ‘deep concern’ over emergency careJennifer Carroll MacNeill warns of ‘heightened risk to patients’ if underlying issues not tackledWed Oct 01 2025 - 18:03
CHI board concerned three years ago over insourcing in hospitalsHSE chiefs to update Oireachtas committee on use of private companies which used public-service personnel and facilities after hours to reduce waiting listsWed Oct 01 2025 - 08:00
From €70m tag for mooted museum to overcharging for emergency accommodation: Six things we learned from C&AG reportComptroller and Auditor General says TB infection rates in cattle rising despite €100m eradication schemeTue Sept 30 2025 - 19:03
Social housing retrofitting target unlikely to be met, says oversight group for councilsNational Oversight and Audit Commission says 4,251 local authority housing units vacant at end of last yearTue Sept 30 2025 - 06:00
Dublin Metro linking city centre with airport may now open in stagesTesting and starting services on railway in phases could cut multi-billion euro project’s costsMon Sept 29 2025 - 10:00
Former Rehab chief Angela Kerins submits legal bills of €2.1m to OireachtasClerk of Dáil tells Public Accounts Committee controversy over €300,000 bike shed caused reputational damageThu Sept 25 2025 - 14:20
RTÉ could increase director general pay by €50,000 under new pay structures Government to propose new pay band between existing rate of €250,000 paid to Kevin Bakhurst and a maximum of €300,000Thu Sept 25 2025 - 06:00
UCD pays close to €1m to Revenue over VAT underpaymentBill includes interest payment of more than €230,000Thu Sept 25 2025 - 06:00
Siptu seeks clarity on whether Bord na Móna chief plans to repay controversial €57,000 perkUnion says workers deserve transparency over payment which covered benefit in kindWed Sept 24 2025 - 06:00
Consultant working in a public hospital received €963,000 in a yearNew report shows one individual working in a public hospital received €963,000 in payments in the same yearTue Sept 23 2025 - 06:00
How a car crash in Dublin 4 drove public-sector CEO salaries higherResignation of EirGrid chief has had downstream consequences for Government over top-level payMon Sept 22 2025 - 06:00
Bord na Móna chief’s €50,000 ‘grossing up’ arrangement drew departmental ire Fine Gael TD angry that ‘Joe Soaps’ would be shocked that chief executive’s benefit-in-kind bill covered by semi-State firmMon Sept 22 2025 - 06:00
Bord na Móna halted CEO’s ‘grossing up’ payments for fear of public outcryEarnings covering Tom Donnellan’s health cover and car risked undermining public pay policy, department documents showMon Sept 22 2025 - 06:00
Neale Richmond to warn of ‘unnecessary suffering’ as international donors cut overseas aidGovernment to say Ireland spending record amounts as it launches annual report of Irish AidFri Sept 19 2025 - 06:00
Minister for Health briefed on Drogheda hospital concern weeks before patientsPatients advised of file reviews 11 weeks after HSE raised it with department, Labour’s Ged Nash saysFri Sept 19 2025 - 06:00
Kenny Jacobs and the DAA: How chief executive who ‘shook things up’ ran out of runway The chief executive who brought an elbows-out approach from Ryanair is departing, reportedly with an almost €1m exit packageFri Sept 19 2025 - 06:00
Two sisters to head separate Government departments for first timeSinéad McPhillips appointed as secretary general of Department of Agriculture, while her sister Oonagh McPhillips leads JusticeWed Sept 17 2025 - 18:20
Sinn Féin urges Ministers to reject proposed €1m Kenny Jacobs exit deal at DAAParty seeks DAA to appear before Oireachtas transport committee on the background to CEO’s departureWed Sept 17 2025 - 17:37
New financial safeguards planned for national maternity hospital projectGovernment seeks to implement lessons learned from national children’s hospital constructionWed Sept 17 2025 - 06:00
Security operation in Dublin follows suspicious package delivered to Iona Institute Army explosive ordnance disposal team on scene in Dublin city Tue Sept 16 2025 - 19:59
DAA and Kenny Jacobs agree exit package of close to €1m, pending ministerial approval Deal reached after weeks of mediation following serious rift between CEO and board membersTue Sept 16 2025 - 18:25
Council told Department of Transport about ‘frustrations’ at planning tensions with DAAState-owned airport company has asked local authority to raise 32m passenger cap at DublinTue Sept 16 2025 - 06:00
Talks ongoing over rift between DAA board and CEO Kenny Jacobs, says Minister Darragh O’Brien says he would have to sign off on any package for the chief executive if he was to leave the organisation but ‘we are not there yet’Mon Sept 15 2025 - 10:45
Minister for Health will not attend hospital consultants’ annual conferenceJennifer Carroll MacNeill’s meeting in March with the senior clinicians’ association was described as ‘tense’Sun Sept 14 2025 - 16:21
DAA chief Kenny Jacobs would receive about €1m under settlement proposals to leave role Payment proposal follows rift between Jacobs and board of State-owned airport operatorSat Sept 13 2025 - 17:39
DAA chief Kenny Jacobs close to settlement to exit State-owned airport groupA deal, which would involve a financial settlement, may be confirmed over the weekendFri Sept 12 2025 - 19:16
Lotto error allowed players who self-excluded to spend €3,200Regulator imposed €150,000 penalty on National Lottery operator on foot of incident, says MinisterFri Sept 12 2025 - 06:00
Pensioners unaware they must return ‘significant’ education and training board overpaymentsAlmost €774,000 overpaid to 32 ex-education and training boards workers, report findsFri Sept 12 2025 - 06:00
DAA and Kenny Jacobs engage lawyers to resolve boardroom rift at airport operatorFallout may lead to CEO’s exit from State-owned bodyThu Sept 11 2025 - 20:08
Almost 400 National Lottery prizes may have gone unclaimed due to technical glitchMinister says regulator withheld €23,000 from operator as a result of licence breachThu Sept 11 2025 - 13:00
Curbs on external firms in hospitals will have ‘some impact’ on patient care, HSE warns InsourcingThu Sept 11 2025 - 06:00
Rift opens up between DAA board and its CEO Kenny JacobsTensions at board level have been brought to the attention of senior Government figuresWed Sept 10 2025 - 22:08
Search for missing boy intensifies at north Dublin siteSearch of Donabate site entering second week after claims boy buried there four years agoSun Sept 07 2025 - 19:03
Doubts grow that planned State elective hospitals will be built before 2030sMinister did not secure sufficient funding to pay for all key health projects, says Sinn FéinSat Sept 06 2025 - 06:00
‘We are in McDonald’s but your son is refusing the food’: How Irish households are boycotting Israeli productsCampaigner says Israel’s assault on Palestinian territory has led to surge in number of Irish people asking: ‘What can I do?’Sat Sept 06 2025 - 06:00
University of Galway will not make new research agreements with Israeli partners over Gaza conflictUniversity president says existing research project into extracting green hydrogen from seawater will continueFri Sept 05 2025 - 13:25
Uisce Éireann warns housing connections at risk as €1.3bn Dublin sewage scheme faces legal challenge Project knocked back again after go-ahead in July following seven years in planning system Thu Sept 04 2025 - 11:53
Ireland keen for EU to maintain aid spending levels in next budget cycle Government backs programme to reform United Nations by improving efficiency and effectiveness Tue Sept 02 2025 - 06:00
US aid cuts to have deep impact on vulnerable people, Irish Ministers hearTrump to withhold funding for 15 programs, including several overseen by State Department and USAid Mon Sept 01 2025 - 06:00
Richest 10% of Irish households hold nearly half the wealthTotal net wealth of households here rose to record €1.25tn in first quarter, new figures showThu Aug 28 2025 - 14:56
Three hospitals paid consultants all the NTPF money received for waiting-list schemesNaas, St Michael’s and Kerry hospitals disclosed they had failed to comply with memorandum of understanding with agency, review revealsThu Aug 28 2025 - 06:00
More than 1,000 patient cases examined as part of review at Drogheda hospital Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital is taking a look back at all histopathology slides seen by one consultantWed Aug 27 2025 - 16:53
