Samaritans sees over 1,000 calls a day, an increase of 10% on last year, new report showsVolunteers spent some 65,000 hours speaking to callers on the island’s only 24-hour emotional support helplineWed Oct 04 2023 - 15:44
Delivery specialist DHL introduces 6.9 per cent price increase on Irish servicesCosts increasing again due to ‘uncertainty’ in global economic situationTue Oct 03 2023 - 07:22
Dublin city councillors vote to leave rate of local property tax unchanged for 2024Proposal to raise rate to fund street improvements did not gain enough supportMon Oct 02 2023 - 22:05
Drogheda woman (32) killed in crash in AustraliaCarol Early lived in Australia for a number of years, where she worked as a graphic designerMon Oct 02 2023 - 21:43
Talented teens line up for Ireland’s classical music awardsFrank Maher competition offers €5,000 prize to secondary school studentSun Oct 01 2023 - 21:23
The growing popularity of tattoos - ‘It’s much more accepted now’As 250 artists gather for the Dublin Tattoo Convention this weekend, studios are seeing a larger and increasingly diverse range of customersSat Sept 30 2023 - 07:00
OPW unable to reach public access deal with Castletown House developers Entrance from M4 side will not be open to the public on SaturdayFri Sept 29 2023 - 20:13
One in five people in Ireland have had a long-lasting health condition, latest census data showsCo Wexford had the highest proportion of people with a chronic health issue, while Watergrasshill in Cork had the highest proportion reporting ‘good’ or ‘very good’ healthThu Sept 28 2023 - 11:38
Mother and autistic son call on Department of Health to apologise for compiling ‘secret dossier’Adam Keogh, now aged 22, say intrusion was ‘horrific’, with Data Protection Commission ruling it was ‘unlawful’Thu Sept 28 2023 - 09:01
Migrant rights group calls for Irish residence permit card fees to be reducedPetition receives more than 14,000 signatures over ‘extortionate’ €300 figureWed Sept 27 2023 - 19:56
Nearly one in five children say they find it difficult to stop playing video gamesBarnardos surveyed 700 national school pupils about their online gaming experiencesWed Sept 27 2023 - 00:01
Half of 18-24 year olds experienced sexual harassment in past year - CSOWomen more than twice as likely to experience sexual harassment than men, survey findsTue Sept 26 2023 - 17:20
‘In the early 20th century Irish families lived in bedsits. Now we have 10 or 12 students or migrants in one small apartment’New to the Parish: Trade unionist Emilio Maira moved to Ireland in September 2020Tue Sept 26 2023 - 08:16
Number of murders almost doubles in 12-month period in the Republic, according to CSO figuresCentral Statistics Office crime trends, based on data supplied by the Garda, show frauds down after increasing during pandemicMon Sept 25 2023 - 21:32
Navan train line reopening moves one step closer with plans to appoint consultantsIarnród Éireann expects to fill roles by early 2024, but railway line not expected to open until early 2030sMon Sept 25 2023 - 20:52
Stars review: Moments of pathos interwoven with clever, dark humourDublin Fringe Festival 2023: Hannah Mamalis plays a multitude of characters in her hilarious and absurdist solo showFri Sept 22 2023 - 12:04
‘I can’t believe it’s finally my turn’: Mother of 12 realises dream of studying medicine at 40Persistence pays off for Rosemary Murphy, who always wanted to become a doctor and remembers her father’s stories of being a hospital porterWed Sept 20 2023 - 20:00
Housing shortage preventing Dublin Simon Community helping more people exit homelessnessNumbers relying on charity fall by 17% but lack of supply in accommodation a ‘critical concern’, says chief executiveWed Sept 20 2023 - 14:50
Introduce public childcare model to make it widely accessible, National Women’s Council urgeAffordable childcare ‘absolutely critical’ for women’s equalityTue Sept 19 2023 - 13:33
‘I found accents here hard to understand. I felt inferior or stupid at first because of that barrier’New to the Parish: John Ocasion moved to Ireland from Italy in 2019 and now feels thoroughly at home in DublinTue Sept 19 2023 - 06:30
Budget 2024: Rent tax credit should double to €1,000, says Simon HarrisRent ‘is expensive in this country’ and ‘significant uplift’ is needed in spending on student accommodation, says MinisterMon Sept 18 2023 - 14:01
Bohemian FC’s Bob Marley shirt sales pay for scholarship for former direct-provision residentPeacemore Magonya (28) will study production in a bachelor’s degree course at BIMMMon Sept 18 2023 - 10:35
Ballymun children turning up at education centre ‘hungry and sick’, notes letter to departmentCommunity service in need of funding caters for 40 minors, some of whom on occasion have experienced ‘deep trauma’Sat Sept 16 2023 - 12:26
Sl(t)áinte: An immersive body-horror journey through Ireland’s healthcare systemDublin Fringe Festival 2023: Aerial artist Kate Dunne transfixes and unnervesSat Sept 16 2023 - 11:09
This Is You review: Promising new actors portray a coercive relationship, wrought with dangerous power dynamicsDublin Fringe Festival 2023: This show has an intriguing premise but, ultimately, leaves some questions unansweredFri Sept 15 2023 - 10:15
Matt and Hat review: An innovative show that combines motion capture and choreography with VRDublin Fringe Festival 2023: Interactive show will entertain the endless imaginations of young peopleThu Sept 14 2023 - 09:35
Are You Mad at Me? review: The audience can barely catch a breath through their laughter Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Fiona Frawley makes difficult topics seem effortlessly funnyWed Sept 13 2023 - 08:26
Road safety: RSA campaign aims for no deaths on Irish roads by 2050Campaign centres on the story of Mary Ward, who died in Birr in 1869 and was the first person in the world to be recorded as killed by a motor vehicleTue Sept 12 2023 - 09:25
One person dies in fire on Dublin’s Capel Street Six units of Dublin Fire Brigade involved in operation to tackle second floor blazeMon Sept 11 2023 - 20:45
Fake letters claim Ukrainian men in Ireland face extradition to fight in warDepartment of Justice confirm it is not behind the correspondenceMon Sept 11 2023 - 19:08
Ireland’s oldest woman Máirín Hughes dies aged 109Born two months before war broke out in 1914, ‘inspirational’ Hughes remembered Black and Tans in KillarneyWed Sept 06 2023 - 11:57
Daytime partying: ‘It’s just a normal night out except I’ll get to go to bed early enough to be up for work’New partying trend includes disco parties and sober dance events as people re-evaluate how they spend their weekendsSat Sept 02 2023 - 06:00
Girls and boys cross decades-long gender divides as single-sex schools go mixedMore schools becoming co-ed with Department of Education not sanctioning a new single-sex school in 24 yearsFri Sept 01 2023 - 16:08
Newly arrived Ukrainians to be placed in tents due to accommodation shortfallMore than 10,000 new arrivals from the war zone have arrived in Ireland since May 1stFri Sept 01 2023 - 15:30
Price hikes for petrol and diesel, waste disposal and hospitality come into force today New levy for unrecycled waste applies from September 1st as reduced taxes for transport and tourism come to an endFri Sept 01 2023 - 06:51
HPSC reports 15.1% decrease in Covid-19 cases in past weekThe highest number of new confirmed Covid-19 cases recorded last week was in the 75-84 age groupThu Aug 31 2023 - 19:00
My friend phoned from the airport saying ‘the Taliban is on its way. Pack your bags, life has ended for us’New to the Parish: Manizha Khan came to Ireland from Afghanistan in 2021Tue Aug 29 2023 - 06:00
Ukrainian community in Ireland marks Independence Day with series of events around countryThose who have fled due to Russian invasion are ‘showing that we are still here and we will keep fighting’Thu Aug 24 2023 - 16:18
Temple Bar market cancelled at short notice due to Saturday American football gameNavy vs Notre Dame match leaves traders without income due to traffic and access restrictionsThu Aug 24 2023 - 07:13
Ukrainians and Irish ‘understand each other because we have been through similar problems’New to the Parish: Elvira Sieitablaieva came to Ireland from UkraineTue Aug 22 2023 - 06:00
Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust sees busiest year with 255 Irish people brought homeCharity alleviating financial hardship of bereaved families has brought back to Ireland more than 1,620 loved ones who died abroadMon Aug 21 2023 - 04:30
Dublin hospital sees threefold rise in emergency admissions over weight-loss surgeries overseas‘Terribly unethical and unprofessional practices’ used to market proceduresSun Aug 20 2023 - 17:50
Number of TDs in Dáil set to rise by up to 20 under electoral review‘Red hot interest’ by politicians in soon-to-be-published report on new constituency boundaries - DonohoeSun Aug 20 2023 - 15:01
Taking in the sights, sounds and history of Inis MeáinInis Meáin is the middle of the three main Aran Islands in Galway Bay, off the west coast of Ireland.Fri Aug 18 2023 - 08:54
Life on Inis Meáin: ‘Some people will say there’s nothing here, but in fact there is everything here’The middle of the Aran islands gets far fewer visitors than the other two, something locals are happy aboutFri Aug 18 2023 - 05:30
Like We Were Born to Move: A sharp, witty, compassionate depiction of young people’s lives in IrelandThis 2023 National Youth Theatre production brings a dynamic group of new talent to the Abbey TheatreThu Aug 17 2023 - 10:31
Staff shortages force closure of 16-bed psychiatric unit in DublinStep-down unit at St James’s Hospital is due to close on August 21st due to staffing shortagesWed Aug 16 2023 - 21:33
Bank of Ireland warns credit ratings could be affected by withdrawals made during IT outageGarda says decisons taken locally to deploy officers to ATMs due to ‘public saftey’ concerns as queues builtWed Aug 16 2023 - 19:30
Ombudsman for Children seeks permission to ‘engage directly’ with Ukrainian children accommodated by StateOffice wants to hold ‘rights-awareness workshops, consultations with children and their parents, and complaints clinics’Wed Aug 16 2023 - 01:59
White-tailed eagles spread their wings with 24 new chicks released into Irish skiesThe chicks were released in locations around Lough Derg, the Shannon Estuary and the west of Ireland.Mon Aug 14 2023 - 17:07
