‘People should be allowed burial with dignity’, Minister of State for financial services Sean Fleming said

Health body criticised in the Seanad but Senator Ronan Mullen did not name charity

Harris says new bodies likely in Mid-West, North-West and South-East

Rónán Mullen urges Government to act amid concerns over human rights issues in China

Minister says vaccination of congregated settings to be completed by end February

Adjustments to March plans may be needed following delays with AstraZeneca, says Minister

Exemption not intended for ‘career politicians’ or various stars promoting their memoirs

Chairman of Uighur World Congress calls on Ireland to use its position on UN Security Council

Equality and doing no harm predate Enlightenment and French Revolution

The House ushers in a special moment but has no time for unladylike behaviour

Pandemic has exposed ‘crumbling’ state of many school buildings, debate hears

Rónán Mullen: Plan to introduce ‘statement of truth’ is an attack on ‘genuine pluralism’

Senators are taking action over legislative crisis caused by delay in forming government

Revenue failure to act led to ‘irreversible character damage and expense’, farmer claims

Customers get glimpse of what retail in the future may be like as they focus on getting in, getting out and getting home

Individual speaker’s award goes to Rachael Mullally representing UCD Law

For six decades, participants in the annual event have argued burning issues of the day

The first Irish Times Debate took place 60 years ago. Former student debaters look back

This part of Dublin has seen lots of development but kept an old-world feel

Voters who care about the right to life must send a message to smug pro-choice parties

It’s estimated only a quarter of NUI graduates vote for the Seanad, but it’s not that simple

Harris happy with level of preparedness to treat women ‘with care and compassion’

Legislation’s passage could be delayed due to the number of Amendments tabled

Minister for Health says he intends to bring forward stand-alone legislation next year

Meanwhile, Catherine Martin shows she has the Commons touch during historic speech

Apart from Brendan Howlin urging a Yes vote, not many Deputies seemed to care

Review: This creaky documentary links the pope’s 1979 visit with the peace process

Diarmaid Ferriter on a premature analysis that fails to prove its point

TD says people who don’t want to take part can ignore the papal visit or ‘go to the beach’

Harris: ’Men loving men,women loving women no less a family than mine’

Independent TD plans to set up his own party with TD for Cork South West Michael Collins

More than 90% of those contacting broadcaster felt Yes campaign treated unfairly

‘The fiction of Ireland as a conservative, dogmatically Catholic country has been shattered’

Undecideds swung in huge numbers to Yes, as politicians struggled to keep up with pace of change

Thirty-five years after its introduction, Eighth Amendment repealed after bitter campaign

Move comes as Love Both representative Cora Sherlock pulls out of RTÉ debate

Not a peep from retainers as Varadkar calls their bluff over concern for hard cases

Call for Rónán Mullen to explain remark that ’mental health not health’ in abortion debate

Great heat, little light on Claire Byrne Live

Mother of late singer Dolores O’ Riordan says her daughter completely opposed to abortion