The Irish Times view on Ireland’s bathing water quality: no grounds for complacency
Local authorities manage and monitor bathing waters in their areas, and deserve credit for making a good record better
Creation of Executive needs weeks of work on NI protocol, Coveney says
Minister counters Sinn Féin claims election result brings Border poll much closer
Citizens’ Assembly asked to consider extending local authorities’ powers
Dublin council chief warns against merger of councils under directly elected mayor
DUP ‘can’t hold everybody to ransom’ after elections, says Michelle O’Neill
Sinn Féin deputy leader says there should not be a drawn-out process of negotiations
Proposed neutrality Bill would likely curtail Irish efforts on international peace, Coveney says
Bill proposed by People Before Profit seeks to insert military neutrality into Constitution
Human rights commissioner calls for national strategy on care
Kathleen Lynch says pandemic has reorientated our thinking on what is important in life
Careful wording needed for referendum on women’s ‘place’ in the home, Minister says
O’Gorman tells committee of ‘genuine risk’ that vote on removing refernce could be lost
Progress on gender equality wanted ‘urgently’
New Oireachtas committee hears recommendations to ‘force’ change quickly
Timing of Citizen’s Assembly on drugs shows Government ‘out of touch’, Dáil told
Minister of State says sequencing of debates does not imply ‘a hierarchy of importance’
Partition, armchair epidemiology and Joe Duffy: 2021’s top conversation killers
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Legal concerns raised about proposed law on assisted dying
Dying with Dignity Bill vulnerable to constitutional challenge, officials advise
Judge resigns from law reform body seven months into five-year term
Mr Justice Richard Humphreys was appointed in October
Eamon Ryan interview: ‘Climate action is where the jobs are going to come’
‘This turning point ... is the equivalent of that paper Whitaker wrote 60 years ago’
Permanent supports for home working must be put in place, engineers suggest
Think-tank says greener future possible if the country is willing to learn the lessons pandemic
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