Norma Foley

Government has pledged €45 million to help childcare providers pay an extra 10 per cent per hour

Patricia Carey says she has been approached by institutional survivors hoping to find where their babies were buried

Coalition could face a backlash from ministers in affected areas

Lack of space at State’s main youth detention centre for teenagers accused of being armed with machine gun during burglary

Government Ministers working to update planning regulations to prevent change of use of childcare facilities

Board reports 50 per cent rise in number of claims lodged this year in wake of scoping inquiry into religious schools

Labour Party criticises delay to proposals to introduce leave for pregnancy loss

Proposed measure is bid to activate developments such as large-scale apartment schemes which might otherwise go beyond their permission timeline

Cara Darmody’s campaign was sparked by the huge delays in providing assessments of need for children with autisim

Ministers admit no quick fix for system estimated to have waiting list of 25,000 by end of year

Micheál Martin said he would make disability services a priority after Harris’s encounter with carer in Kanturk

Government set to face intense pressure on services as Cara Darmody (14) to hold 50-hour protest outside Leinster House

There are countless cases of institutional retaliation against whistleblowers who expose wrongdoing and of silencing citizens who seek truth or justice from the State

A review found that ‘there is little recognition of the differing play and recreation needs of adolescent girls, who are even more underserved than adolescent boys’

Fianna Fáil’s John McGuinness renews criticism of inquiry, telling Norma Foley: ‘You cannot walk away from this’

Marie Claire Butler issued an unusual statement ‘in the public interest’ on Tuesday

No progress made in transition of CBS Synge Street to a coeducational Irish-medium Gaelcholáiste, campaigners say

Plans for new Strategic Housing Activation Office as well as asylum system overhaul and military radar due before Cabinet

Airbnb is popular in a county that relies heavily on tourism, but locals fear the impact of the Government’s new rules on short-term letting

More than 40 intellectually disabled adults were abused in two HSE facilities in Stranorlar, Co Donegal

Amid more than 2,000 pages of dense legalese and Beckettian obsession with process, there are few glimpses of Grace and even fewer answers

A whistleblower has described the investigation into the alleged abuse of a vulnerable young woman as Kafkaesque

Farrelly commission’s report, running to almost 2,000 pages, published on Tuesday

Students will be competing for college places against applicants with bumper grades from previous years

Government faces steep legal barriers to compelling orders to contribute to €800m redress scheme, say experts

Some survivors want Government to seize assets of religious orders who refuse to pay

Any attempt to force payment from church orders would be fraught with legal difficulty, expert says

Congregations ‘operated as criminal networks in mother and baby homes’, Social Democrats acting leader tells Dáil

Government negotiator Sheila Nunan has submitted a final report with conclusions from talks with seven Catholic bodies and the Church of Ireland

Paschal Donohoe expected to brief colleagues on proposed changes to LPT charging mechanism to limit the impact of rising property values on householders

HSE has capacity to carry out about 3,600 assessments annually, but 10,000 requests were made last year

National average rate of staff leaving the service was 24.5 per cent in 2023

Oral presentations are increasingly being used at third level in response to AI – and secondary schools are set to follow suit

Olympic boxer Kellie Harrington and London mayor Sadiq Khan were among those at the head of the parade winding through the West End

Research projects worth 40% will roll out across a number of subjects for students starting fifth year in September

Radio: The whiff of cordite in the RTÉ studio is strong enough to warrant a UN peacekeeping mandate of its own

Payment to hosts worth €800 a month is due to expire on March 31st

Simon Harris to brief ministers on plan and seek approval for Ireland’s participation in G20 forum, while Peter Burke is to set out IDA Ireland’s new five-year strategy

Daily average spend of €2.75m per day revealed in new figures released by department

€9m smartphone pouches at second level sparked criticism from Opposition parties who labelled it wasteful and unnecessary