A busy school, just one bike outside: Why so few children cycle in one Dublin suburbGreen Party councillor says ‘a proper cycle lane’ must be ‘good enough for a 12-year-old’ to useThu Mar 05 2026 - 09:00
Minister for Enterprise has called for urgent investigation into price gouging claims around home heating oil, petrol and dieselIsrael threatens to assassinate any Iranian leader picked to succeed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Wed Mar 04 2026 - 21:54
‘Unsettling few days’: Irish in Dubai concerned by Iranian strikes but trust UAE responseSituation feels like early days of Covid, with sense of disruption but also resilience, says Irish woman living in DubaiTue Mar 03 2026 - 09:00
Dozens of applications for eight places on State childcare capital investment schemeCriteria target undersupplied areas and other factors including location, capacity and costThu Feb 26 2026 - 16:20
Asbestos found in children’s educational science kit distributed to schoolsMy Living World, Worm World Kit recalled after laboratory testing detected a naturally occurring type of the materialThu Feb 26 2026 - 15:28
Survivors of thalidomide drug to be offered formal State apologyCommitment for move given following meeting of representatives with Taoiseach and TánaisteThu Feb 26 2026 - 06:19
‘Shocking and wrong’: Taoiseach issues State apology to institutional abuse survivorsIt’s a busy day at Government Buildings, follow our live updatesWed Feb 25 2026 - 18:31
Funeral details for Mia Lily Keogh O’Keeffe (16) announced Private funeral service for family and friends will take place in NavanWed Feb 25 2026 - 11:21
Irish Thalidomide Association to meet Taoiseach and Tánaiste following apology demandsDrug withdrawn from most markets in 1961 following widespread evidence it was linked to birth defectsTue Feb 24 2026 - 17:32
Childhood exposure to poor food can lead to lasting changes in brain function Early diets may leave hidden, long-term effects not immediately visible through weight Tue Feb 24 2026 - 10:00
Irish citizens advised against all travel to Mexican state of JaliscoWarning from Department of Foreign Affairs follows killing of wanted drug trafficker 'El Mencho'Mon Feb 23 2026 - 16:01
‘A brutalist design’: Planned flood defences for south Dublin rail line divide opinionSome residents in Blackrock and neighbouring areas are not convinced by a proposed solution from Irish Rail to defend against future floodsSun Feb 22 2026 - 06:00
Met Éireann says some counties could face 50mm of rainfall with multiple warnings in placeThe forecaster has predicted more heavy rain across the country todayWed Feb 18 2026 - 18:41
‘It’s going to be very difficult’: 18 weeks of roadworks on Dublin’s northside to disrupt trafficRaheny residents express concern about impact of construction works on water main when schools return next weekMon Feb 16 2026 - 14:03
Spoonful of honey can help children cope with swallowed batteries, Irish research findsButton battery ingestion can erode through oesophagus into the aorta, leading to serious bleeding and deathFri Feb 13 2026 - 07:10
Met Éireann issues nationwide low temperature and ice warning as Arctic air mass approachesRain expected to give way to frost and ice, with thermometer hitting −4 degrees on Friday nightThu Feb 12 2026 - 09:35
Jim O’Callaghan hails balance of rights, protections as Defamation Bill passes OireachtasAbolition of juries in High Court defamation cases is most significant change in decadesWed Feb 11 2026 - 23:04
Garda group raises threat of ‘blue flu’ on St Patrick’s Day if issues not resolved GRA warns it may withdraw services around Ireland’s EU presidency and will cancel voluntary overtime on national holidayWed Feb 11 2026 - 20:20
‘Absolute disgrace’: Residents react over approval to scrap Dublin Airport passenger capCabinet approved draft laws to do away with 32 million annual passenger cap on TuesdayWed Feb 11 2026 - 08:03
Below-freezing temperatures and patches of rain and fog forecast for later this weekMet Éireann predicts frost and ice to set in at weekend with some wintry showers are possible in northern areasWed Feb 11 2026 - 07:00
Dún Laoghaire council received more than 500 calls during Storm Chandra floodingOfficials consider flood storage at Marlay Park and other works to reduce risk in futureTue Feb 10 2026 - 08:00
‘We’re just in limbo’: Defective concrete puts Donegal childcare centres under huge stress Cracks appearing in the walls of buildings have caused major problems for a number of childcare providersMon Feb 09 2026 - 06:00
Changes to Dublin bus routes serving Chapelizod and Finglas come into effect todayChanges to routes 23, 24 and 80 are in response to issues raised by residents in protests, says National Transport AuthoritySun Feb 08 2026 - 17:02
Brendan Behan’s family ‘extremely proud’ as plaque is unveiled outside his childhood home in DublinPlaque unveiled outside playwright’s former childhood home in a part of Dublin that inspired many of his ‘great characters’Sat Feb 07 2026 - 17:24
Flooding latest: ‘Significant’ road damage in Waterford; Clontarf Baths in Dublin ‘destroyed’Dublin City Council monitoring river levels as weather warnings liftedFri Feb 06 2026 - 20:25
Gardaí look to speak to bus driver following fatal Dublin city crashPedestrian in his 80s killed as three others, including driver, a woman in her 50s, treated for injuriesFri Feb 06 2026 - 06:00
Dublin bus crash: One dead and three hospitalised as bus crashes into pedestrians in city centreThree adults hospitalised following incident at junction of North Earl Street and Marlborough StreetThu Feb 05 2026 - 18:19
Social media ban risks pushing children towards ‘unregulated spaces’, committee hearsCatherine Cross, of the National Parents Council, described the introduction of bans on young people accessing social media as ‘a blunt instrument’Thu Feb 05 2026 - 13:51
Dublin flood teams monitoring river and tide levels; ‘unlike any other flood before’, says specialist; rain warnings remain in placeDublin to face worst of rain due in coming days as Met Éireann warns of ‘worst-case scenario’Tue Feb 03 2026 - 21:37
Enniscorthy faces ‘very significant risk of flooding’; rainfall warning in place for seven countiesEast coast forecast to see more heavy rain on already saturated ground Fri Jan 30 2026 - 20:36
Number of homeless people up 12% in 2025 despite small December decreaseLatest Department of Housing figures show 16,734 people in emergency accommodation including 5,188 childrenFri Jan 30 2026 - 15:29
Number of Dart stations closed this weekend for scheduled works Weekend travel: Works to take place on a number of train lines, including Cork and GalwayFri Jan 30 2026 - 13:11
Gardaí have seized 300 scramblers over last two years, says MinisterProposal to ban scramblers from public roads comes after death of teenager Grace LynchThu Jan 29 2026 - 17:49
‘No one was pumping the water’: Rathfarnham deals with Storm Chandra aftermathResidents of Grange Park and Nutgrove Avenue were still surrounded by water on Tuesday eveningTue Jan 27 2026 - 20:58
Met Éireann issues yellow weather warning for nine counties amid wintry showers and possible snowWaterford, Wicklow and Wexford, along with Northern Ireland, expected to see heaviest rain on Tuesday with a chance of snowfall on higher groundSun Jan 25 2026 - 12:07
Galway man completes 4,800km rowing journey across Atlantic Ocean in fewer than 40 days Daragh MacLoughlin wins solo class in World’s Toughest Row after reaching Antigua in the CaribbeanFri Jan 23 2026 - 19:12
The Irish civil servant walking barefoot from Istanbul to MayoEamonn Keaveney has taken a career break from his job as a civil servant to break a world record for the second timeFri Jan 23 2026 - 06:00
Oscar-nominee Dubliner got idea for film after ‘quiet panic attack’ on planeJohn Kelly’s Retirement Plan has been nominated for an Academy Award for best animated shortThu Jan 22 2026 - 19:41
RTÉ outlines importance of State funding as TV licence sales down for sixth year in a row About 769,000 households or businesses paid for a licence in 2025 – a drop of more than 250,000 on the 2019 figureThu Jan 22 2026 - 19:20
Tusla saw 10% increase in referrals last year, committee hearsMore than 750 cases have been referred to Tusla’s Children Missing in Education Team since JulyThu Jan 22 2026 - 15:03
Trump drops threat of tariffs over Greenland following Nato talks in Davos Framework for future deal on Danish territory formed after US president met with military alliance’s secretary general Mark RutteWed Jan 21 2026 - 22:16
‘You’ll find out’ – Trump declines to say how far he will go to acquire GreenlandThe US president spoke for over almost two hours at the White House press conference, where he said he has “lots of meetings scheduled on Greenland”Tue Jan 20 2026 - 22:14
An Post apologises for late Christmas cardsPostal service says Christmas mail continues to arrive from various parts of the world, including the USTue Jan 20 2026 - 10:12
Flu numbers seem to have plateaued, says HSECaseload of 1,910 hospitalised last week is way down from pre-Christmas peak of 3,544Mon Jan 19 2026 - 17:10
Carmel was in her 60s when she suddenly found herself homelessRent has ‘skyrocketed’ completely out of range of people on a pensionMon Jan 19 2026 - 00:29
Woman injured by falling glass on Dublin’s Grafton Street It appears a section of glass fell from a second-floor window to street at well-known Weir & Sons jewellersThu Jan 15 2026 - 12:50
Number of US citizens seeking asylum in Ireland rises fourfoldIt is not clear if any of the 94 American applicants in 2025 were granted international protection hereThu Jan 15 2026 - 06:00
Gardaí investigating 200 reports of alleged AI-generated child sex abuse material on XSocial network’s tool Grok has been creating illegal images at the request of usersWed Jan 14 2026 - 14:35
Falcons should be introduced in Dún Laoghaire to reduce ‘pest’ seagulls, councillor saysFalconry or hawkery in harbour area could be ‘a natural solution to a natural problem’, says FG’s Frank McNamaraTue Jan 13 2026 - 16:17
Ireland allocates €42m to Palestine, almost half for UN agency restricted by Israel‘Ireland’s support for Unrwa remains unwavering,’ says Helen McEnteeTue Jan 13 2026 - 10:50
