Anger at Israeli embassy statementTHE ISRAELI ambassador to Ireland, Dr Zion Evrony, is to be again invited before the Oireachtas Sub-committee on Human Rights…Fri Feb 12 2010 - 00:00
Visitor figures could be down 13%FIGURES FOR 2009 would show the number of visitors to Ireland fell by 13 per cent last year, with a decline of 16 per cent from…Thu Feb 11 2010 - 00:00
Concern over end of trauma services at Navan hospitalTHE IRISH Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has expressed its “serious concerns” about the end of major trauma services…Wed Feb 10 2010 - 00:00
St Patrick's Day junkets defendedA Fianna Fáil Senator has called for an end to the 'national begrudgery' against Government figures travelling abroad to promote…Wed Feb 10 2010 - 00:00
Derry man to give talk with ex-soldier who blinded himA DERRY businessman and charity worker who had been shot in the face and permanently blinded by a British soldier when aged 10…Sat Feb 06 2010 - 00:00
Transport supports 'key' to fighting social exclusionA LACK of adequate public transport is a major factor behind social exclusion, particularly in rural areas, according to a report…Thu Feb 04 2010 - 00:00
Concern over deaths linked to pregnancy in AfghanistanTHE DEATH rate among women and girls in Afghanistan due to pregnancy and childbirth is like a “silent tsunami”, an Oireachtas…Thu Feb 04 2010 - 00:00
Deportation of mother and three children suspendedTHE DEPORTATION of a Nigerian mother and her three children – one of them who is seriously ill – has been suspended pending a…Thu Feb 04 2010 - 00:00
Father and son among five killed on roads over weekendFIVE PEOPLE have been killed in four road incidents over the weekend. Three of the fatalities were in Co Donegal.Mon Feb 01 2010 - 00:00
Fr Healy urges rethink on povertyTHE GOVERNMENT needs to change its approach to tackling poverty, one of the foremost campaigners against inequality has warned…Mon Feb 01 2010 - 00:00
Mother with seriously ill child faces deportationTHE NIGERIAN mother of a seriously ill five-year-old girl, who face deportation, has been asked to return to the offices of the…Sat Jan 30 2010 - 00:00
Mother with seriously ill child faces deportationTHE NIGERIAN mother of a seriously ill five-year-old girl, who face deportation, has been asked to return to the offices of the…Sat Jan 30 2010 - 00:00
Viking settlement unearthed by OPWDUBLIN’S NORTHSIDE is revealing its own Viking past with the first evidence of 11th-century Dubliners choosing to settle on the…Wed Jan 27 2010 - 00:00
Viking settlement unearthed by OPWDUBLIN’S NORTHSIDE is revealing its own Viking past with the first evidence of 11th-century Dubliners choosing to settle on the…Wed Jan 27 2010 - 00:00
Dell ex-staff to be briefed on training and supportFORMER EMPLOYEES of the Dell computer plant in Limerick and of enterprises affected by its closure are to be contacted in the…Sat Jan 09 2010 - 00:00
Dell ex-staff to be briefed on training and supportFORMER EMPLOYEES of the Dell computer plant in Limerick and of enterprises affected by its closure are to be contacted in the…Sat Jan 09 2010 - 00:00
Family of missing teenager to meet officialsTHE FAMILY of Dublin teenager Amy Fitzpatrick, who went missing in the south of Spain on January 1st, 2008, will meet officials…Thu Dec 31 2009 - 00:00
St Vincent de Paul to 'visit' 100,000 householdsUP TO 100,000 households across the State will have received a hamper of toys, vouchers or food from the Society of St Vincent…Thu Dec 24 2009 - 00:00
Dramatic decline in people taking overseas holidaysTHE NUMBER of overseas holidays taken by Irish people fell by almost 20 per cent this summer, compared with the same period last…Tue Dec 22 2009 - 00:00
'Confused' victim may leave town, says therapistTHE VICTIM of a sexual assault has told counsellors she feels she may have to leave her home town having watched people queue…Fri Dec 18 2009 - 00:00
No protocol in place on public access to prisonerCOURT PROCEDURES: THERE WAS no Courts Service protocol in place on whether the public could have access to a prisoner awaiting…Fri Dec 18 2009 - 00:00
Alliance to seek mental healthcare for childrenTHE HUMAN rights of almost 250 children were “shockingly violated” last year, according to a coalition of 38 campaigning organisations…Wed Dec 16 2009 - 00:00
Number sleeping rough in Dublin falls, survey findsTHE NUMBER of people sleeping rough in Dublin has fallenTue Dec 15 2009 - 00:00
€100,000 car job is karma, says winnerIF THERE’S such a thing as karma, this is what it feels like, said last night’s winner of The Apprentice series, Steve Rayner…Tue Dec 15 2009 - 00:00
Ciarán MacMathúna's funeral Mass tomorrowTHE FUNERAL of veteran broadcaster, Ciarán MacMathúna, will be at noon tomorrow in Dublin.Mon Dec 14 2009 - 00:00
Male drivers in Dublin likeliest to be breathalysedYOU ARE most likely to be breathalysed if you are a male driver in Dublin between 7pm and 10pm on Saturdays, a survey has found…Mon Dec 14 2009 - 00:00
Support for new parents 'crucial'TO CARE about the wellbeing of infants and children “we must care about the parents even more”, an international expert in child…Fri Dec 11 2009 - 00:00
Byelections 'unsuitable' electoral methodBYELECTIONS ARE “an entirely unsuitable method of filling casual vacancies” at parliamentary level here, a leading academic in…Thu Dec 10 2009 - 00:00
Warning of mental health risk to joblessA "Copernican shift” in the way we treated the newly unemployed was needed if "long-term damage to the mental health of huge …Thu Dec 10 2009 - 00:00
Activists are like poets, Heaney says in rights lectureHUMAN RIGHTS workers and poets “with humanist sympathies” were concerned fundamentally with the same endeavour – to bring to …Thu Dec 10 2009 - 00:00
Vatican to issue 'strong response' on abuse reportThe Vatican will issue a "strong reponse" to the findings of the Murphy report after the pope meets Archbishop Diarmuid Martin…Tue Dec 08 2009 - 00:00
Listening exercise proves a success with gardaí and youthsAN INNOVATIVE project, in which young people in Rialto in Dublin invited gardaí to hear their grievances with some elements of…Mon Dec 07 2009 - 00:00
'No plan for vulnerable' - advocateThere did not appear be any Government plan to protect the vulnerable in the current economic crisis, a leading advocate for …Fri Dec 04 2009 - 00:00
'Rogue' pregnancy agencies criticisedIT WAS questionable whether some State-funded crisis pregnancy agencies should receive money from the Government, an Oireachtas…Wed Dec 02 2009 - 00:00
5,000 participate in Dublin senior citizens' dayABOUT 5,000 people visited Dublin city yesterday “from all over the country” to take part Dublin City Senior Citizens’ Day…Tue Dec 01 2009 - 00:00
Support for local priests but anger at bishopsMASS-GOERS' REACTION: DESPITE REVULSION at the abuse of children chronicled in the Murphy report, Mass-goers in Dublin remained…Mon Nov 30 2009 - 00:00
Swine flu injections in schools from MondayTHE SWINE flu vaccination programme will begin in schools on Monday, the HSE has confirmed.Sat Nov 28 2009 - 00:00
'Chronic' lack of personal assistantsTHERE WAS a danger that nursing homes would become the “new warehouses” for housing people with disabilities, a conference was…Sat Nov 28 2009 - 00:00
Early childcare the 'best investment'THE BEST long-term investment the Government could make to ensure Ireland’s economic recovery would be in early child-care and…Fri Nov 27 2009 - 00:00
'Lack of political will' to tackle binge drinkingA LACK of political will to tackle our “explosive binge drinking culture” was perpetuating a culture where “enormous damage” …Thu Nov 26 2009 - 00:00
Bonus withdrawal 'will ruin Christmas'The withdrawal of the Christmas bonus for welfare recipients would "ruin Christmas" for thousands of families as the Society …Wed Nov 25 2009 - 00:00
Budget cuts 'could marginalise Travellers'The Government has been urged not to implement key McCarthy proposals which would "further marginalise one of the most marginalised…Wed Nov 25 2009 - 00:00
'If we roll over now, where is this going to stop?'ON THE PICKET LINE: THE MOOD on picket lines around Dublin was one of acceptance that there would be pay cuts in next month’…Wed Nov 25 2009 - 00:00
Public workers 'won't be scapegoated'The mood on picket lines around Dublin was one of acceptance there would be pay-cuts in next month's Budget, but a determination…Tue Nov 24 2009 - 00:00
Relative or friend perpetrated 97% of child sex assaultsSOME 97 per cent of those who had been sexually abused as a child and sought help from a Rape Crisis Centre last year had been…Fri Nov 20 2009 - 00:00
'Hanging deaths by drug-users doubled'THE NUMBER of deaths among drug users due to trauma including hanging more than doubled between 1998 and 2005, while the number…Thu Nov 19 2009 - 00:00
Many abusers know victims - reportSome 97 per cent of people who were sexually abused as a child and sought help from a Rape Crisis Centre last year had been abused…Thu Nov 19 2009 - 00:00
State urged to put unfinished housing estates to social useSO-CALLED "GHOST" or unfinished housing estates around the State could be used for social housing as part of a €170 million stimulus…Wed Nov 18 2009 - 00:00
Archbishop opposes further school cutsTHE ARCHBISHOP of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin, has spoken out against further education cuts in the forthcoming budget.Wed Nov 18 2009 - 00:00
Merchants Quay celebrates its 40th anniversaryIF IT were not for places like the Merchants Quay “tea-rooms”, which serves breakfast and lunch to about 200 homeless people …Fri Nov 13 2009 - 00:00