Ending of Good Friday alcohol prohibition saw consumer spending jump

New figures from AIB shows Irish people’s spending habits

Review suggests special winter funding for health service last year came too late

The analysis found emergency department presentations have increased on average by 3.9% annually over the past two years

Storm Ophelia caused almost €70m worth of damage

Three deaths, €45m insurance claims and a tree nursery faced with disaster

Storm Ophelia: ‘It was like someone got into a bad mood and smashed the whole place’

One year on: Owner of Co Cork tree nursery says it will a decade to build his stock back up

Connemara locals shocked at Swiss woman’s death as caravan swept off coast in storm

President Higgins expresses condolences over woman’s death in Claddaghduff

Taoiseach urged to declare homelessness national emergency

Plans in place to move homeless families to commuter towns during papal visit

Catching the wave: harnessing Ireland’s water power

Offshore wind is seen as the current ‘most immediate’ contributor to meeting Ireland’s 2030 renewable energy targets

My mother is obsessed with the weather, but thinks it’s better on the BBC

Niamh Towey: Whenever I ring, she muses on precipitation a good three minutes

HSE structural reform to be considered by Cabinet

Board restoration and management review to be part of plan to rebuild public confidence

Met Éireann launches new app for our ‘weather-obsessed’ country

App will predict weather seven days in advance and on a ‘parish by parish’ basis

Sergeants and inspectors concerned at number of suicides in Garda

Agsi conference to hear call for suicide prevention programme

Bumbling gun-lovers, world’s richest women and yet more billboards

Planet Business: How Ophelia beat Emma, and Frances McDormand’s ‘inclusion rider’

Last of the worst-hit schools prepare to open after snow

Local farmers dig in to help reopen schools in Wexford and Kildare

Cutting holidays to make up time unfair, say schools

Department of Education allows three days holidays to be used for tuition

Is extreme weather in our business forecast?

Cantillon: Should State money be ploughed into protection against snow and floods?

Power outages affecting 24,000 homes could last until 8pm Friday

ESB crews reconnected 83,000 customers overnight and continue to work today

Schools may not cut Easter Holidays over snow closures

Official guidance allows schools to shorten holidays to make up for lost tuition time

Gerald Fleming: Weather is about managing risk, not certainties

Forecasters consider not just the severity of the weather event but the impact it could have on society

Health staff may have to use leave to cover weather absences

HSE memo says this week’s expected weather event is different to Storm Ophelia

Parents told to be ready for alerts from schools over potential closures

Decisions on whether to close to be made by individual schools

Here is your complete guide to the big freeze, if you catch my drift

120,000 tonnes of salt at the ready as Beast from the East sets in

Eir says it outlined issues with State’s broadband plan a year ago

Revenues decline 2% on both quarterly and half year bases as ebitda up 4% in Q2

TV3 warms up for ‘Super Saturday’ ahead of channel rebrand

Virgin Media-owned broadcaster set for a 2018 marked by ‘big events’ and 20th anniversary

Eleanor’s siren sound: ‘We will run out of luck eventually’

Evidence shows strong links between extreme events and human-caused warming

New wind warning issued as 16,000 remain without power

Motorists advised to take extra care after Storm Eleanor downs trees, causes flooding

Streets of Galway flooded as storm Eleanor arrives

ESB deals with 55,000 faults as gusts of up to 140km/h are reported off the west coast

Extreme weather events cost local authorities €9m

Hurricane Ophelia caused widespread disruption to homes and businesses countrywide

‘Boxer’ Moran: I was maddened and embarrassed by my colleagues’ North Korea plan

Minister of State says any tensions within Independent Alliance in the past

Bus Éireann to get extra €7m from State for free travel scheme

Move will bring payments into line with private sector rivals

A month-by-month look back at 2017 in Ireland

News review of the year: Border issues, the Garda whistleblower scandal, property prices, the Paradise Papers, Storm Ophelia and the Rescue 116 tragedy were some of the big stories of 2017

‘Next time we see Queen Elizabeth she might have a knife’

Patrick Freyne's Icons of Ireland 2017: Ed Sheeran, Conor McGregor, ‘The Brits’

Large, valuable, private properties will ‘fall into the sea’ because of climate change

Ireland may have to endure temperature rise of over four degrees, conference told

Coastwatch survey reveals myriad litter and pollution problems

Analysis exposes surge in nitrate seepage due to farming, tyre nuisance and plastic hazards

Irish sea level rising 3.5cm a decade since the early 1990s

Climate study finds average annual rainfall has risen, and flash flood patterns have changed

How do you bounce back from a major defeat? You just do

For Killarney Legion and me, losing a bunch of finals is just a small chapter in our story

Electric vehicle owners to get reduced tolls, says Naughten

Government to introduce series of measures in effort to increase uptake of technology

A sort of homecoming – An Irishman’s Diary on the citizenship ceremony

The longer I spend here, the more I love it – the people, the culture, the landscapes

Some 120,000 from abroad have become Irish citizens since 2011

‘Do not forget your own country, your own people, your own traditions’, advises judge

Late Late Toy Show auditions: ‘The mothers are worse than the kids’

Patrick Freyne meets the talented kids who try out for the annual toyfest

Rain and floods bring road closures and disruption

Flash floods lead to traffic chaos across the country, with bitterly cold conditions to come

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