New refuges to be opened as part of government plan to tackle domestic violenceThere are nine counties that still do not have refuges for women and childrenTue Jan 25 2022 - 18:30
Caution still needed despite pandemic progress, says global health expertOmicron has generated optimism but more emergence of severe variants still possibleThu Jan 20 2022 - 21:44
Is it the beginning of the end of the Covid-19 pandemic?Inside Politics: Soothing noises from Government as it looks at a post-Covid landscapeThu Jan 20 2022 - 07:49
Covid-19: Another 6,843 PCR-confirmed cases reported, and 52 more deathsVaradkar says he does not agree with rules requiring employees to show vaccine statusWed Jan 19 2022 - 17:31
Healthcare workers to get €1,000 bonus for work during pandemicExtra public holiday on March 18th this year to give many citizens a four-day weekendWed Jan 19 2022 - 13:46
Labour calls for senior minister responsible for gender-based violenceNeed for public awareness campaign about violence against women, says BacikWed Jan 19 2022 - 13:33
Gambling laws and work from home among bills to be brought to CabinetPlans for remediation scheme for mica homeowners included in 44 billsWed Jan 19 2022 - 10:57
Killing of Ashling Murphy demands a political responseInside Politics: Gender based violence to be discussed as Dáil returnsWed Jan 19 2022 - 08:14
Drop in delivery of climate plan only partly due to Covid, committee toldReductions in methane challenging and not possible until latter half of the decade, official saysTue Jan 18 2022 - 20:27
Ministers to be given bodyguards and specialised carsIncrease in security follows Garda review of Cabinet members’ personal safetyMon Jan 17 2022 - 01:30
Cabinet to examine ‘zero tolerance’ measures on gender-based violenceResponse to Ashling Murphy murder to centre on countering violence against womenMon Jan 17 2022 - 01:03
Coveney ordered internal investigation into champagne celebrationVaradkar ‘unaware’ inquiry into impromptu event in June 2020 had begunSun Jan 16 2022 - 22:30
People with a genetic blood condition having difficulties during pandemicHaemochromatosis sufferers have excess iron in their blood, and the standard treatment essentially removes blood from the bodySun Jan 16 2022 - 21:25
Varadkar expects Covid restrictions to be eased in phases but relatively rapidly‘Ireland is probably the only country where it hasn’t been possible to go to a pub or your office’Sun Jan 16 2022 - 19:42
Varadkar says public service pay and reforms to form part of new talksWith inflation at 5 per cent Tánaiste says it is reasonable for issue to pay to be raisedSun Jan 16 2022 - 19:16
McEntee says gender-based violence strategy will have ‘zero-tolerance’ approachTánaiste says the killing of the school teacher is a ‘watershed moment’ for Irish societySun Jan 16 2022 - 14:01
What emissions cuts will actually mean, and how they will change our livesEverybody seems to agree with emissions reductions in principle until their implementationSat Jan 15 2022 - 01:06
Covid: Martin ‘hopeful’ of progress on easing restrictions as 17,065 new cases reportedNumber of patients in hospital rises to 1,023, with 83 of those in intensive careFri Jan 14 2022 - 18:56
President Michael D Higgins pays tribute to Ashling MurphyTaoiseach spoke to family of Ashling Murphy and to ‘express our solidarity with them’Fri Jan 14 2022 - 14:31
Contribution by agriculture sector divides groups on climate changeEnergy generation an opportunity, Oireachtas committee told, but livestock numbers an issueThu Jan 13 2022 - 20:35
Rationing fossil fuels among hard choices Government needs to make, committee toldAcademics say carbon budgets recommended do not go far enough to achieve 7% reductionWed Jan 12 2022 - 18:31
Decline of forest planting a major obstacle to climate goals, committee toldLand formerly a carbon sink will become net emitter of greenhouse gases, academic saysTue Jan 11 2022 - 18:05
Assembly elections will not be a referendum on NI protocol, Alliance MP saysMinister Simon Coveney discusses Brexit with new UK counterpart Liz Truss for first timeFri Jan 07 2022 - 12:52
Disruption to health services expected as over 6,000 staff on leave due to Covid-19Hospitals brace for sharp increase in patients infected with disease this weekMon Jan 03 2022 - 01:01
Schools set to reopen on Thursday despite surge in Covid cases, says RyanFurther 17,071 cases of coronavirus reported in State on Sunday in latest provisional dataSun Jan 02 2022 - 18:48
Government to provide ‘huge grant support’ for retrofitting homes – RyanMinister says some 55% of money raised through carbon tax to go back to homeownersSun Jan 02 2022 - 18:29
State papers: Haughey told to prioritise development, ‘not environment’Taoiseach opted to set up Environmental Protection Agency despite mandarin’s resistanceSat Jan 01 2022 - 00:01
Security chiefs advised that IRA surrender of weapons was ‘unnecessary’Adams said IRA held threat of violence for ‘25 years if necessary’ in 1996Thu Dec 30 2021 - 09:00
Ahern threatened to walk away if unionists failed to take North-South council seriouslyTaoiseach told UK government he had changed ‘my damn Constitution’ for peaceThu Dec 30 2021 - 04:45
Ahern briefed Blair on Real IRA activity two weeks before Omagh bombingOn the morning after the bombing Ahern and Blair met in Belfast to discuss its implications and their joint responseThu Dec 30 2021 - 01:18
Cabinet to consider shorter isolation for Covid cases and close contacts due to work absencesRecord number of new coronavirus infections reported as officials consider testing changesThu Dec 30 2021 - 01:17
Private nature of Commissions of Investigation ‘problematic’, says McGrathModel introduced to cut cost of inquiries lacks public sense of accountability, says MinisterThu Dec 30 2021 - 01:00
‘War is not over,’ said McGuinness just months after signing Belfast AgreementOfficials spent thousands of hours trying to come up with formula of words that would allow Executive to be formedThu Dec 30 2021 - 00:01
Existing housing shortage in Donegal will add to mica challenge, says TaoiseachCommitment given to help those families who have to move during work on homesThu Dec 30 2021 - 00:01
Department of Foreign Affairs apologises for lockdown champagne eventDepartment concedes it ‘did not meet the standards expected of it’ in June 2020Wed Dec 29 2021 - 21:15
South Africa still has a lesson for North, says academic behind ‘peace safari’State papers: Padraig O’Malley’s 1997 trust-building trip was dubbed ‘rubbish’ by then taoiseachWed Dec 29 2021 - 10:35
Troubles were costing Irish taxpayer ‘up to three times more than British counterpart’Security costs were running at £200m per year, according to 1994 State correspondenceWed Dec 29 2021 - 04:33
State papers: Reynolds told Major of commitment to end NI conflictIrish ministers viewed British demand to remove unilaterally articles 2 and 3 as ‘unhelpful’Wed Dec 29 2021 - 03:45
IRA chiefs in Maze approved building escape tunnel ‘but wanted it to fail’When prison staff found tunnel in 1997, republicans said it was occupational therapyWed Dec 29 2021 - 00:10
People aged over 30 to be offered boosters from todayCapacity for tests substantially increased with arrival of coronavirus Omicron variantWed Dec 29 2021 - 00:01
Internal FF tensions due mainly to inability to meet in person - MartinMicheál Martin cool on party return for maverick MacSharry – ‘Marc took his own decision’Wed Dec 29 2021 - 00:01
Further 9,006 Covid-19 cases reported as number hospitalised rises sharplyHSE chief says Omicron variant ‘running rife’ in community as testing system comes under strainTue Dec 28 2021 - 18:37
State papers: Warrington bomb that killed two children touched a ‘sensitive nerve’Ambassador refers to misleading media coverage around State ambivalence to IRATue Dec 28 2021 - 05:00
Gerry Adams was still on IRA army council in 1994 – UK security adviserAdviser also said ‘Slab’ Murphy had expressed reservations about ending violenceTue Dec 28 2021 - 04:45
Haughey warned Major against giving European Parliament extra powersMajor was opposed to idea of single currency but Haughey said it was worth the riskTue Dec 28 2021 - 03:55
Irish officials feared ‘bloody-minded element’ in Britain would stall peace processBritish diplomat was told they seemed to share unionist suspicions about nationalistsTue Dec 28 2021 - 01:05
Johnson gave his take on Major’s NI policy at lunch with Irish diplomatState papers: The future British prime minister was said to have written ‘naively’ on the NorthTue Dec 28 2021 - 00:45
‘The trouble is that Gadafy is mad’: what Haughey told MajorThen-taoiseach and British PM discussed how to respond to the Lockerbie bombingTue Dec 28 2021 - 00:20
Don’t expect ‘sophistication’ from unionists, Haughey told MajorState papers: Ex-taoiseach floated idea of Sinn Féin peace talks 30 years agoTue Dec 28 2021 - 00:14
What did Bertie and Tony talk about? The weather, holidays and Chinese spiesDeclassified papers show depth of relationship between former taoiseach and prime ministerTue Dec 28 2021 - 00:02
