One in five reports of discrimination against disabled linked to health servicesPeople with disabilities majority on committee to monitor State on UN ConventionMon Oct 01 2018 - 01:00
Pro-Cathedral lead organist bows out after 42 yearsProf Gerard Gillen gives final liturgical performance at Sunday MassSun Sept 30 2018 - 21:27
More than 50 TDs including seven Ministers lobbied by drinks industry on alcohol BillDáil row expected over ban on advertising, promotion at concerts in park venuesSun Sept 30 2018 - 17:19
Ship seizure costs Revenue €410,000, mostly in Dublin berthing chargesAsbestos and three years of legal proceedings hinder disposal of vesselFri Sept 28 2018 - 19:28
Disability over-payments of €270m attributed to fraud, error or ineligibilityInvestigations underway as excess payments to social welfare schemes range up to 10.4%Fri Sept 28 2018 - 17:50
€1.2 million in overpayments to almost 500 jobseekers last yearOverpayment averaged €2,469 for each of 486 recipients aged 25 or underFri Sept 28 2018 - 15:19
Eoghan Murphy promises to tackle rise of short-term tourism lettingsMinister for Housing to publish proposals on regulating home rental on Airbnb and othersFri Sept 28 2018 - 00:06
Bid to ban bookie betting on lottery to save 'good causes’ fundBill to stop 15 unregulated operators in Ireland and keep customers buying ticketsThu Sept 27 2018 - 20:38
State exam system will be reviewed so mistake fixes can be ‘timely’ - MinisterPledge comes after student Rebecca Carter wins court case over mistake in totting up her Leaving resultsThu Sept 27 2018 - 13:47
FF health spokesman ‘unaware’ alcohol caused cancerDail debate set to continue on State’s first public health Bill on alcoholWed Sept 26 2018 - 22:08
Taoiseach accuses socialists of wanting to ‘segregate communities’Varadkar rounds on Solidarity TD who says estates could be 100 per cent public housingWed Sept 26 2018 - 20:01
Minister backs forum to tackle sexual assaults on studentsMerit in Garda contact with college authorities and rape crisis centres, says FlanaganWed Sept 26 2018 - 18:05
State ‘shameful’ in its intransigence with Thalidomide sufferersJack Chambers says victims should not be blocked from pursuing cases for injuriesWed Sept 26 2018 - 17:49
‘Real risk’ of repeating Celtic Tiger mistakes if taxes cut, Howlin saysLabour leader says hollowing out of tax base in past left State unable to pay nurses, gardaíWed Sept 26 2018 - 14:02
Minister for Housing survives no-confidence voteSinn Féin motion of no confidence in Eoghan Murphy defeated 59 votes to 49Tue Sept 25 2018 - 22:38
Wallace says land agency will be ‘crony capitalism at its finest’Wexford TD claims Government ‘wedded’ to policy that housing market will fix itselfTue Sept 25 2018 - 20:31
If people ‘want post offices...they’re going to have to use them’, Minister saysMichael Ring notes €615m online spend but TD says many in rural areas have no broadbandTue Sept 25 2018 - 18:44
Varadkar delusional about housing crisis, says McDonaldTaoiseach calls Sinn Féin’s motion of no confidence in Murphy as tactical and cynicalTue Sept 25 2018 - 15:49
Minister to remove cancer warnings on alcohol from BillHarris to introduce compromise proposals to include health warnings in IrishSat Sept 22 2018 - 00:19
Pope has not yet replied to mother-and-baby home memo, Zappone saysMinister says memo to Government ‘in coming weeks’ on what do next about Tuam siteThu Sept 20 2018 - 14:16
Child surgery waiting lists for scoliosis ‘an exercise in manipulation’‘Children in pain today, in pain tomorrow and in pain until this surgery provided’Thu Sept 20 2018 - 14:06
Law on how private security firms carry out High Court orders to be examinedMinister says gardaí need support from public ’not intimidation or abuse’Wed Sept 19 2018 - 21:27
Outsourcing not at heart of CervicalCheck controversy – HarrisMinister pledges full implementation plan for Scally recommendations within 3 monthsWed Sept 19 2018 - 21:08
Council not ‘unduly beholden’ by being airport noise regulator – RossDublin Airport rates amount to 8% of Fingal County Council’s overall incomeWed Sept 19 2018 - 19:59
Minister admits Defence Forces personnel turnover ‘too high’Soldiers have had to ‘fight Government tooth and nail’ over pay, conditions, Dáil toldWed Sept 19 2018 - 16:48
Removing blasphemy from Constitution will confirm Ireland as 'modern State'Charlie Flanagan says it shows Ireland values free speech and embraces multiculturalismTue Sept 18 2018 - 21:58
‘Section 39’ health and social care staff set to get 1% pay risePay rise in January would be backdated to October under proposals put to unionsTue Sept 18 2018 - 19:55
EU support for Ireland’s Brexit position ‘absolutely guaranteed’, says VaradkarTaoiseach dismisses claims Brexit support dependent on corporate tax reformTue Sept 18 2018 - 19:49
Taoiseach plans to challenge Abbas on lack of gay rights in GazaIreland should raise human rights violations in Palestinian, Hamas-controlled areas, says VaradkarTue Sept 18 2018 - 18:25
Shortall claims ‘spurious reasons’ being used to delay alcohol BillVaradkar hopes legislation, pulled from Dáil schedule on Tuesday, will be dealt with this weekTue Sept 18 2018 - 16:25
Varadkar rejects Sinn Féin rent-freeze proposalTaoiseach also says no plan in place to ban photos or videos being taken of garda membersTue Sept 18 2018 - 15:00
FF will withdraw Irish amendment if it puts alcohol Bill at riskDonnelly claims not having health warnings in Irish opens route to legal challengeMon Sept 17 2018 - 20:53
Boris Johnson: Irish Border problem a ‘gnat’ and backstop a ‘monstrosity’Former Tory minister claims protocol used to coerce UK into ‘vassal state of Brussels’Mon Sept 17 2018 - 09:06
FF Irish amendment could delay public health legislation on alcoholHarris plan to pass Bill three years in the making, under pressureSun Sept 16 2018 - 23:19
Cancer warnings on labels: the latest battle in alcohol regulationIreland might be the first country to put cancer warnings on all alcohol productsSat Sept 08 2018 - 06:00
Cloverhill prisoners slept on mattresses on floor due to overcrowdingEight of the inmates had no prison-cell bed in April, 21 in May and 15 in JuneFri Aug 31 2018 - 01:00
Court poor box collections amount to €7.5m since 2014Flanagan brings in legislation to replace box with community sanctions and probationSun Aug 12 2018 - 22:13
McAleese accuses pope of ‘bad manners’ after failing to reply to her letterFormer president hopeful pontiff will change church doctrine on homosexualityMon Aug 06 2018 - 22:05
5.6% of first-time-buyer grants went to homes over €450,000TD expresses concern that builders factoring help-to-buy scheme into ‘inflationary’ priceMon Aug 06 2018 - 01:00
Aosdána poet Matthew Sweeney dies at 65 of motor neurone disease‘One of the finest poets of his generation, a craftsman of the highest achievement’Sun Aug 05 2018 - 21:44
Guide to investigations into CervicalCheck controversyBackground: New inquiry examining outsourcing of services to labs in United StatesFri Aug 03 2018 - 07:09
Department of Children pours cold water on ’granny grant’ proposalsKatherine Zappone ‘focused’ on increased childcare investment in budgetFri Aug 03 2018 - 00:08
Amnesty decision spurs move to set up electoral commissionCalls for definition of ‘political purposes’ to be clarified in law following court rulingWed Aug 01 2018 - 01:37
High Court’s quashing of Sipo Soros funds decision welcomed by AmnestyDepartment of Local Government to act on watchdog’s call for electoral commissionTue Jul 31 2018 - 16:45
Varadkar appeals for Ryanair and unions to resume talksTaoiseach ‘concerned’ about impact on holidaymakers as fourth pilots’ strike to go aheadThu Jul 26 2018 - 21:04
Taoiseach expresses confidence Brexit deal can be sealed before MarchVaradkar renews offer to Italian PM to take 600 migrants once security clearance agreedThu Jul 26 2018 - 19:52
Air Corps crosses Border to assist with Co Down forest fireBefore this summer Air Corps had never engaged in such a cross-Border operationThu Jul 26 2018 - 16:45
Sipo calls for law to stop foreign meddling in Irish pollsNo spending limits or regulations in place, warns watchdogThu Jul 26 2018 - 16:07
Ticketsellers will ‘have to come on board’ with new resale lawsCabinet approves legislation to ban the resale of tickets at multiples of their face valueThu Jul 26 2018 - 07:47
‘Lawyers in the Seanad’ holding up judicial appointments reform – RossMinister confident Stepaside will reopen on 24 hour basis; says he will run in next general electionWed Jul 25 2018 - 20:39
