Department of Justice

Students planning to work part-time to fund cost of living unable to get appointments to register for Irish residence permit

Move part of State tightening of asylum regime and intended as incentive to those without valid claim for international protection

Demand for voluntary service rising as it marks 20 years of supporting victims of crime and their families

Justin Kelly unveils plans during first appearance as Garda chief before Police and Community Safety Authority

Resignation of EirGrid chief has had downstream consequences for Government over top-level pay

Micheál Martin says Westminster has addressed key issues such as immunity

Sinéad McPhillips appointed as secretary general of Department of Agriculture, while her sister Oonagh McPhillips leads Justice

Niamh Sweeney to take up role in October

New legislation makes it easier for authorities to prosecute gangs illegally bringing people into the State

A secure, paperless and electronic conveyancing process would save costs, cut red tape and reduce stress of house sales

Three adults in their 70s, including woman with prosthetic leg, were transferred from housing in Youghal to Dundalk in August

Applications in train at time of scheme closure in 2023 were kept open despite concern over weak controls

Payments may have been disclosed inadvertently

Cognyte Technologies, which has close ties to Israeli security services, manufactures a range of espionage tech

Dáil’s spending watchdog seeks ‘rationale’ from department officials for not publishing list of contracts

Internal documents show pushback to idea children be accommodated by care firms who supplied fake Garda vetting

This fringe group, drawn from the ranks of anti-lockdown protesters and business people laid low by the crash, have a cabinet, local co-ops and even a network of ‘courts’

State bodies under pressure over contracts awarded to group found supplying falsified vetting checks

Businessman behind firm blacklisted by Tusla over fake vetting later won €6 million State contract

Most children taken from Ireland are brought elsewhere in Europe

Fewer offences of possession of child sexual abuse material due to resource issues at online child exploitation unit

Department of Justice says 490 beds have been removed from the system due to closures so far this year

More than 1,000 were granted permission to remain in 2023, but fewer than 500 in 2024

Gardaí managing complex and serious investigations while ‘relying primarily on manual spreadsheets or paper-based systems’

Girl’s mother took her to Poland without father’s consent; parents in battle over where child should receive medical care

McEnaney Group growing fast with tens of millions in turnover and growing property portfolio, public documents show

High Court referred issue to EU’s most senior judges after cases taken by international protection applicants

Recruitment, domestic violence, morale and the narcotics trade will head the agenda for incoming chief

Rise in workload driven partly by ‘exponential increase’ in cases involving asylum seekers

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Louise O’Keeffe, who took State to court over failure to protect her, questioned Government’s guidance on issue

Taoiseach Micheál Martin said trip seemed ‘haphazardly organised’ and processes have to be followed

Planned reform at advanced stage, with backing of Law Reform Commission

Force has long called for facial recognition powers to analyse increasingly prevalent digital evidence

Mother facing deportation: ‘Sometimes I just want to give up but I have to go on for my children’

Ireland has a management problem as well as a demographic dilemma

Scheme would publicise details of people found guilty of sexual and domestic violence

Decision to refuse applications from 33 youths due to visit later this month criticised in Dáil

West Bank dance troupe is also facing problems over permits from Irish authorities, so is postponing its visit

Irish hotline reports 116% increase in such photographs, videos and pictures in space of a year