Hauliers warn driver shortages could disrupt supply of goodsState facing a ‘national crisis’ in supplies with shortage of 3,000 to 4,000 lorry driversSat Sept 18 2021 - 01:57
Mica-affected homeowners set out ‘final’ position for better redressCampaigners from Donegal and Mayo call for 100% compensation schemeFri Sept 17 2021 - 19:49
Sláintecare resignations: Donnelly meets former executive director MagahyMeeting between pair looked at ‘various elements of the ongoing reform’Wed Sept 15 2021 - 11:10
Covid-19 cases among primary school children jump 48% in a weekSome 2,418 children test positive as number seeking tests more than doublesWed Sept 15 2021 - 01:09
Sinn Féin defends abstention on vote for new Dublin housing projectParty abstained despite policy of opposing sale of public lands for private housingTue Sept 14 2021 - 19:17
UK deferral of Brexit import controls ‘will buy time’Food exporters to benefit as they are still dealing with supply chain issuesTue Sept 14 2021 - 15:54
Britain delays implementation of post-Brexit trade controlsMove gives Irish exporters to Britain more time to prepare to comply with new regulationsTue Sept 14 2021 - 11:49
Parent of girl who caught Covid is frustrated at ‘mixed signals’ over virus risk in schools‘We followed the rules. It is so unexpected for it to be our children who get it at this stage’Tue Sept 14 2021 - 04:30
Vaccine booster doses not appropriate for general population yet, says reviewLack of need for boosters due to high level of vaccine efficacy, even against delta variantTue Sept 14 2021 - 03:45
Covid-19: Up to 1,200 schoolchildren a day forced to curb activitySchool reopening behind 17% spike in tests for virus conducted over weekend, says HSEMon Sept 13 2021 - 14:55
Paul Reid defends HSE’s commitment to Sláintecare reform planHSE chief unaware Magahy and Keane were unhappy with progress until they resignedMon Sept 13 2021 - 01:00
HSE chief says governance concerns will not stall new maternity hospitalHealth service raised issues about board make-up of new hospital, says ReidSun Sept 12 2021 - 19:57
Forcing Covid-19 close contact children out of school ‘probably unnecessary’ - ReidHSE chief says health rule for close contacts of Covid-19 cases must be ‘proportionate’Sun Sept 12 2021 - 17:58
Reid defends HSE’s commitment to Sláintecare after resignationsExecutive director and chairman of the programme resigned last weekSun Sept 12 2021 - 16:00
Decline in calls from principals to Covid-19 helplineMore than 3,000 children and teenagers tested positive for virus in the past weekFri Sept 10 2021 - 20:09
Taoiseach, Minister for Health criticise Rotunda for allowing camera crew into hospitalMicheál Martin says it was inappropriate to let in camera crew but not patients’ partnersFri Sept 10 2021 - 18:17
Huge coronavirus testing surge recorded among childrenIn just one week 32,000 walk-in and self-referral tests carried out on childrenFri Sept 10 2021 - 01:04
Covid-19: Surge in demand for testing among children in past week, HSE says1,292 new cases reported in the State with 331 patients in hospitalThu Sept 09 2021 - 17:21
‘I don’t need a grave site to remember Anne’: Sister recalls Galway woman who died on 9/11Maura McHugh recalls her fun-loving sister who was killed in the September 11th attacksThu Sept 09 2021 - 02:00
HSE to assign extra staff to Covid-19 helpline for school principalsSome schools struggling to manage impact from surge in cases and close contactsWed Sept 08 2021 - 21:52
School principals struggle to cope with surge in Covid-19 infectionsCarlow principal calls for helpline to run 24 hours a day to help schools cope with casesTue Sept 07 2021 - 20:17
High-scoring Leaving Cert students may miss out on preferred CAO coursesPoints for high-demand courses set to surge on record-breaking results during pandemicTue Sept 07 2021 - 07:09
Crisis appointments at rape crisis centre tripled after first lockdownUnprecedented levels of stress seen among survivors of sexual violence amid pandemicTue Sept 07 2021 - 00:30
Post-Brexit demand for Irish passports falls due to Covid-19Share of applications from Northern Ireland and Britain holds steady at 70%Mon Aug 02 2021 - 03:08
Over 100 nursing homes saw Covid outbreaks in both first and third wavesFigures show 11 nursing homes were hit with several outbreaks during a single waveMon Aug 02 2021 - 01:30
Fifteen nursing homes hit with Covid-19 outbreaks in all three wavesNphet expected to provide fresh advice to Government on easing of remaining restrictionsMon Aug 02 2021 - 01:00
John Simpson: My torture was ‘deeply humiliating, wounding to the spirit’Veteran BBC journalist says writing novels is ‘very liberating’ in way journalism can’t beSat Jul 17 2021 - 06:00
Give me a crash course in ... the latest in the EU-UK ‘sausage war’Tensions rose after Brexit and Northern Ireland protocol led to ban on chilled meat importsSat Jul 03 2021 - 05:00
‘There is no room for error’: Six months after Brexit, companies are still adjustingLimited direct EU ferry sailings and higher costs push exporters through Britain againSat Jul 03 2021 - 01:00
The force reawakens as Skellig Michael reopens to visitorsMonastic tourist attraction off Co Kerry coast hosts first daytripping visitors since 2019Thu Jul 01 2021 - 16:23
Brexit: 4% of inbound trucks from Britain ‘red-routed’ at ports for inspectionMore than 186,500 freight vehicle movements at Dublin and Rosslare ports since BrexitThu Jul 01 2021 - 08:43
Officials raise possibility of post-July 19th travel constraints with BritainLabs and pharmacies will verify Covid-19 tests for EU digital cert, travel industry toldTue Jun 29 2021 - 04:00
Brexit: Irish bakeries turn from Britain and look to EU and NIBritish flour exports to the Republic slide by 25% since January in wake of EU departureTue Jun 29 2021 - 02:00
Nphet and Niac to meet over resumption of indoor dining and vaccines for younger peopleUnease in Cabinet that increase in Delta variant could jeopardise any revised dateMon Jun 28 2021 - 03:00
Niac considers effect of early vaccination of young people with AZ jabsImmunology professor says Government should not delay reopening indoor diningMon Jun 28 2021 - 01:01
Modified Covid-19 test kit to catch probable Delta cases more quicklyPublic health director says new PCR test will allow ‘more actions’ to prevent spreadMon Jun 28 2021 - 01:00
Post-Brexit checks rejecting less than 1% of British importsSome 24,481 consignments of animal food, plants and live animals processed this yearMon Jun 28 2021 - 01:00
Covid-19: Almost 4m vaccine doses administered as 443 more cases confirmedIreland ‘should not have been so lax on travel from the UK’, says public health expertSat Jun 26 2021 - 20:47
Experts call for vaccination of younger people amid Delta concernsPreference among some scientists is to stick with mRNA vaccines if they are availableSat Jun 26 2021 - 11:54
North-South trade post-Brexit: ‘I’m avoiding England, it doesn’t work for me any more'Early economic figures show emerging shift from east-west to north-south dealingsSat Jun 26 2021 - 01:00
Midlands and Border counties record highest Covid-19 positivity ratesOffaly posts highest rate in country, but still unclear whether Delta variant to blameFri Jun 25 2021 - 06:36
Limerick disability care home failed to protect residents from abuse, Hiqa saysHealth service regulator finds non-compliance with regulations in 17 care homesTue Jun 22 2021 - 19:07
State ‘much closer’ to receiving €1bn share of EU’s Brexit fundPaschal Donohoe welcomes swift agreement on allocation from €5.34bn fundThu Jun 17 2021 - 22:23
‘He had no garage’: Offaly man’s €11m tax bill is the talk of CloghanLocals surprised at the size of tax debt for a car dealer without a vehicle showroomThu Jun 17 2021 - 00:10
Antigen tests detect Covid in just half of asymptomatic cases found via PCRHSE working group warns rapid tests miss ‘significant proportion’ of infected peopleMon Jun 14 2021 - 23:16
Councillors back rezoning that could allow 2,200 homes in north DublinDublin City Councillors support plan for 100-acre Finglas site by 43 votes to 17Mon Jun 14 2021 - 22:59
Search continues for Dublin man missing in US Rocky MountainsCian McLaughlin (27) believed to have gone hiking in Grand Teton National Park, WyomingMon Jun 14 2021 - 21:49
Delta variant fears may see change in quarantine rules for UK passengersUnvaccinated passengers travelling from the region set to face longer minimum isolationMon Jun 14 2021 - 01:38
California-based Irish group helped Sinn Féin fund ‘Irish unity’ ads in USKnights of the Red Branch gave SF’s US arm €66,000 grant to promote Irish unificationMon Jun 14 2021 - 01:09
‘Little friendly Dr Ross’: The forgotten hunger strike victimDoctor who oversaw the care of republican prisoners during the Troubles later died by suicideSat Jun 12 2021 - 06:00
