Tallaght schools will seek to become sources of support to community after tragedy, says principalKevin Shortall pays tribute to Lisa Cash as 'the most honest and genuine person,’ who was ‘a lovely big sister to her siblings’Mon Sept 05 2022 - 09:15
Bord Gáis price increases: Some households face paying €85 extra per monthCompany blames record wholesale prices for latest increase as Russia’s Gazprom suspends gas shipments indefinitelyFri Sept 02 2022 - 19:28
Almost half of Irish households facing energy poverty, warns ESRIVery hard to predict when levelling off of energy prices will happen, says senior researcherFri Sept 02 2022 - 08:56
HSE working to recruit more therapists for schools - Rabbitte How recruitment is taking place has to be examined, Minister saysFri Sept 02 2022 - 08:42
DBS should consider refunds for social care work students, says Simon HarrisPrivate Dublin college did not set out to ‘dupe’ students over lack of degree accreditation but lessons must be learned from controversy, says MinisterWed Aug 31 2022 - 16:37
Ukrainian schoolchildren left waiting for bus on side of road in Co Wexford Group of volunteers in Fethard transported the 11 children to school as Minister’s office examines problemWed Aug 31 2022 - 14:59
Children ‘must not be allowed to deteriorate’, groups say following spinal surgery cancellationsChildren’s Health Ireland says only three complex surgeries have been postponed for the next three weeksMon Aug 29 2022 - 12:16
Teachers living in urban areas ‘unlikely’ to receive special allowance to cover higher accommodation costsMinister for Education Norma Foley says housing and accommodation issues not unique to education sectorMon Aug 29 2022 - 10:28
Ukrainians leaving student accommodation facing ‘great uncertainty’Some refugees moved out of student housing likely to be accommodated in community hallsThu Aug 25 2022 - 16:18
Fall of Troy was inevitable, say Opposition party leadersLabour Party leader Ivana Bacik says ‘drip feeding’ of information on Minister of State Robert Troy’s property interests had not helpedThu Aug 25 2022 - 09:50
Robert Troy confirms he owns 11 properties and apologises for failure to fully declare interestsMinister of State says he made pre-tax profit of €36,000 on house bought, renovated and sold on to local authorityTue Aug 23 2022 - 13:28
Martin pledges to ensure energy supply for industryEarlier warning system on electricity shortages might have been expected, Taoiseach saysTue Aug 23 2022 - 11:14
Psychiatrists call for ‘radical overhaul’ of mental health services in IrelandProvision of services in a ‘dire state’ with lengthy waiting lists and lack of fundingMon Aug 22 2022 - 13:52
Irish Red Cross does not know where refugees leaving student accommodation will goAround 2,500 refugees will have to move elsewhere by the end of this month when new term startsMon Aug 22 2022 - 13:19
Government sets up expert group on monkeypox responseState currently has vaccines to treat only 10 per cent of estimated 6,000 to 6,500 people identified as at riskThu Aug 18 2022 - 14:27
Parts of report into An Bord Pleanála may have to be redacted, O’Brien saysComments come as report in decisions made by planning body referred to DPP by MinisterTue Aug 16 2022 - 13:49
Businesses and homes flooded in Wexford after intense rainfall ends heatwaveCouncil seeking to support businesses and homeowners as clean up beginsTue Aug 16 2022 - 09:41
People aged 60 and older now eligible for second Covid-19 boosterRollout of second booster vaccines extends to 55- to 59-year-olds next weekMon Aug 15 2022 - 10:01
Call for moratorium on data centres amid concern over approval for Amazon projectsGovernment has ‘essentially rolled out the red carpet’ for facilities says Social Democrats spokesperson on Climate, Jennifer WhitmoreMon Aug 15 2022 - 08:01
New 30% tax rate would be ‘inequitable’ if lower-earners not offered reliefs, Varadkar saysTánaiste says income tax changes announced in budget next month will not be ‘just for one group’Thu Aug 11 2022 - 17:59
‘Since I came to Ireland, I had this idea of telling the story of people who fled Afghanistan’Photojournalist Barialai Khoshhal left his country last year and an exhibition of his work will open in Dublin this weekThu Aug 11 2022 - 17:42
Heatwave: Highest August temperature for almost 20 years recorded at 29.2 degreesMet Éireann forecasts 30 degrees could be breached for the first time since 2003 on ThursdayWed Aug 10 2022 - 20:36
Irish children with gender dysphoria may still be referred to UK’s Tavistock clinic, HSE says‘We will continue to refer while Tavistock is still open’, HSE’s national lead for integrated care saysTue Aug 09 2022 - 11:09
Heatwave reaches Ireland as public warned about risk of heat stressIrish Water says ‘vast majority’ of water supplies meeting demand as temperatures of up to 28 degrees forecastMon Aug 08 2022 - 09:13
Second Ballybunion victim named as gardaí seek to establish how tragedy unfoldedTaoiseach among those to express sadness over incident that claimed lives of Desmond Byrne and his sister, Muriel ErikssonSat Aug 06 2022 - 11:25
State’s coroners’ offices currently holding 27 unidentified remains Centralised database will help identify more bodies, says Minister for Justice Helen McEnteeThu Aug 04 2022 - 19:24
Taoiseach says ‘time to move on’ from Sabina Higgins controversy, defending right to free speech‘People are entitled to their viewpoints,’ says Martin, stressing Government stance on Ukraine is unchangedWed Aug 03 2022 - 10:00
Calls for President to defend view of Sabina Higgins on Ukraine war ‘ridiculous’, Shane Ross saysMinister of State Robert Troy says it is worrying that letter welcomed by Russian ambassador and published on presidency websiteTue Aug 02 2022 - 11:31
Sinéad O’Neill pays tribute to her boss for saving her lifeDonegal woman met Dean Ward on a dating website and suffered a six-week ordeal at his handsFri Jul 29 2022 - 20:35
Estimate of ‘65,000 Ukrainians’ in State by year end, says refugee council NGO chief flags pressing need to resolve accommodation problems confronting arrivals from war-torn countryFri Jul 29 2022 - 16:41
AIB may top key 2023 profit target amid raft of ECB rate hikes First-half profit increase driven by AIB releasing €309m of loan loss provisions, up from €103m a year earlierFri Jul 29 2022 - 13:32
‘We got it wrong,’ says AIB chief executive on bank’s cashless moveBank pledges that branches will stay as they areFri Jul 29 2022 - 11:02
Emissions targets ‘not consistent’ with Government legislation, says Climate Change Advisory CouncilScience does not recognise compromises and agreement is not not enough, warns scientistFri Jul 29 2022 - 07:52
Monkeypox not as big a threat as Covid but could become ‘more vicious’, warns McConkeyVirus ‘likely to stay within a group’ rather than spread widely in population, says infectious diseases expertThu Jul 28 2022 - 16:48
Builders guilty of constructing homes with defects should pay — advocacy groupReluctance on the part of Government officials to fall out with developers persists, it is claimedThu Jul 28 2022 - 12:33
First Covid-19 booster vaccine rate lowest in Donegal and highest in DublinJust one in five children aged between five and 11 have been fully vaccinated - CSOWed Jul 27 2022 - 12:35
AIB scraps plans to remove cash facilities from 70 branchesReversal of plan follows ‘customer and public unease’ and political criticismFri Jul 22 2022 - 19:00
AIB reverses plan to make 70 banks cashless following ‘public unease’Minister for Finance welcomes decision not to proceed with changes to customer servicesFri Jul 22 2022 - 10:34
EU move to cut gas usage likely to impact householders - ByrneMinister of State warns there is likely to be an indirect impact in form of higher pricesThu Jul 21 2022 - 12:07
New hate-crime legislation in place ‘by end of year’New law will make it easier to secure convictions, Helen McEntee saysWed Jul 13 2022 - 10:58
Pharmacies report ‘huge’ increase in Covid-19 antigen test salesIreland nearing peak of current wave of infections, says HSE as 14,983 positive PCR tests and 20,834 positive antigen tests reportedFri Jul 08 2022 - 11:30
Sinn Féin to table motion of no confidence next week in Government‘They will want to be as disruptive as possible’, says Coveney on Opposition’s no confidence vote before Oireachtas breaks for summerFri Jul 08 2022 - 09:28
