Government spends nearly €460,000 hiring private jets for overseas travel in nine monthsHiring private jet for Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s overseas travel cost €300,000 over nine monthsTue Mar 05 2024 - 15:59
Ten companies paid €58m to run unregulated accommodation for children in care last yearTwo directors of one company running emergency accommodation for children in care shared €866,000 in remunerationMon Mar 04 2024 - 06:00
Corncrakes and bats to benefit from biodiversity grantsFunding for community groups will create ‘pocket forests’ in Crumlin and tackle Japanese knotweed in LeitrimMon Mar 04 2024 - 00:01
Tusla cuts ties with two companies that had been providing emergency accommodation for childrenNew company set up in months after Tusla stopped using Ideal Care services over ‘fabrication’ of staff checksFri Mar 01 2024 - 05:30
Gardaí investigating care provider that ‘fabricated’ pre-employment staff checksCalls for review into Tusla’s reliance on private companies to accommodate children in careThu Feb 29 2024 - 05:00
Gardaí to investigate care provider that ‘fabricated’ pre-employment staff checks, Dáil toldSimon Harris says investigation is now under way and that Tusla had put in place a new internal compliance unitWed Feb 28 2024 - 18:47
St John of God reaches deal with HSE to continue providing community servicesVoluntary organisation providing disability and mental health services had long complained of underfunding crisisWed Feb 28 2024 - 18:41
Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan's former assistant says Saoirse McHugh skinny dipping tweet an ‘impulsive joke’Belgian court told Diarmuid Hayes still had access to MEP’s Twitter account after contract not renewedWed Feb 28 2024 - 14:30
Care home used by Tusla ‘fabricated’ pre-employment checks of staff, posing major risk to young people in its careCompany who ran emergency accommodation for children in State care ‘fabricated’ staff checks and Garda vettingWed Feb 28 2024 - 06:00
Rory Hearne to seek nomination to stand for Social Democrats in European electionsAcademic and housing policy commentator is seeking to run in the Midlands North West constituencyMon Feb 26 2024 - 16:49
Lawyers complain about court security after barrister knocked to the floor and a solicitor ‘slapped in the face’Bar Council raises concerns about violence towards barristers and solicitors in letter to Courts ServiceMon Feb 26 2024 - 06:00
One in five TDs are landlords as Michael Healy-Rae boosts property portfolio to 25Returns of politicians’ interests for 2023 show 29 of the 160 TDs declared that they were landlords or owned rental propertySat Feb 24 2024 - 06:00
RTÉ crisis: Catherine Martin and RTÉ board at odds - as it happenedBoard seeks meeting with Minister in wake of Siún Ní Raghallaigh departure after Martin claimed she was misinformedFri Feb 23 2024 - 21:30
Siún Ní Raghallaigh resigns as chair of RTÉ board after Minister says she had been ‘misinformed’Catherine Martin said it has emerged that board approved exit package for Richard Collins despite initial denialFri Feb 23 2024 - 06:47
Siún Ní Raghallaigh profile: From cleaning up RTÉ controversy to becoming a casualtySiún Ní Raghallaigh had long career in broadcasting and production before becoming chair of the RTÉ board in 2022Fri Feb 23 2024 - 06:31
Independent review ordered into Scouting Ireland governance following board splitBitter row within board of youth organisation worsens as Department of Children commissions reviewThu Feb 22 2024 - 20:14
St John of God order warned for years it could no longer ‘bail out’ servicesRecords show financial crisis facing disability care provider had been building for yearsWed Feb 21 2024 - 17:08
Migrants presenting as homeless ‘directly from the airport’, housing officials claimOfficials had ‘concern’ about increase in migrants becoming homeless, internal documents showTue Feb 20 2024 - 05:00
Solidarity rally held in Tallaght after Muslim cleric assaulted in suspected hate-based attackShaykh Umar Al-Qadri says he did not want to see Ireland ‘go down the road’ of other European countries where anti-immigrant sentiment is surgingMon Feb 19 2024 - 21:17
Holly Cairns says Social Democrats in power would deliver 50,000 homes a yearParty leader says she will ‘talk to every party’ about a potential coalition after the next election but preferably, she says, without Fine Gael or Fianna FáilSun Feb 18 2024 - 16:08
Further protests held in Dublin over ‘unconscionable’ conditions in GazaGaza's healthcare system is ‘being demolished’ with Nasser hospital under siege, says Dublin-based GPSun Feb 18 2024 - 14:03
St John Ambulance seeks State funding to hire child-protection officerOrganisation is criticised over lengthy delay filling safeguarding role following child-abuse scandalSun Feb 18 2024 - 10:06
Families ‘deeply concerned’ at proposed HSE takeover of St John of God servicesVoluntary provider St John of God intends to hand over responsibility for disability and mental health services to the HSESat Feb 17 2024 - 19:41
RTÉ paid Rory Coveney exit package worth one year’s salary Kevin Bakhurst issues statement on circumstances around departures of former RTÉ senior executivesSat Feb 17 2024 - 17:05
‘People in Ireland are not willing to normalise what’s happening’: Thousands march in Dublin against Gaza violenceGaza protest in Dublin hears calls for Israel to face consequences for killing civilians during conflictSat Feb 17 2024 - 15:02
Q&A: What is happening at St John of Gods?Large provider of disability and mental health services had long complained of funding crisisFri Feb 16 2024 - 19:00
HSE ‘shocked’ as St John of God says it will stop providing disability and mental health servicesProvider to hand over services to HSE after lack of progress over €30m funding deficitFri Feb 16 2024 - 18:41
Consultants criticise lack of commitment to open more hospital beds in HSE planNational service plan for 2024 states cost of running services will exceed available fundingFri Feb 16 2024 - 10:48
Cash-for-visa scheme: Clearing backlog of Irish residency applications will take ‘years’‘Golden visa’ scheme allowed wealthy people secure residency in return for investments of €1m in an Irish business or philanthropic donationsThu Feb 15 2024 - 11:43
Man (30s) killed in single vehicle crash on M1 in north DublinCar struck barrier after veering off motorway in fatal crash near Donabate, north Co DublinWed Feb 14 2024 - 14:50
Minister has ‘concerns’ about people leaving direct provision system entering homeless servicesDarragh O’Brien says Department of Integration needs to ‘work hard’ on exit strategy for people given permission to remain in StateWed Feb 14 2024 - 12:44
Pulling Toy Show the Musical would have been ‘unthinkable’, says former RTÉ executiveRTÉ publish updated report detailing names of previously anonymised figures involved in controversial musicalTue Feb 13 2024 - 14:41
Departments clash over refugees pushed from direct provision into homelessnessSenior housing official says ‘serious risk’ asylum seekers left sleeping rough after leaving direct provisionSun Feb 11 2024 - 20:50
Religious publisher Veritas to shut this yearVeritas to shut book shops and publishing business due to ‘sustained downturn’Sun Feb 11 2024 - 14:39
Former €7.3m US residence of Irish Ambassador was considered ‘very dated’ and ‘too small’Internal documents state new $12m Washington DC mansion would project ‘positive image of Ireland’Sun Feb 11 2024 - 05:30
Business owners broadly welcome changes to stop cars ‘barrelling’ through Dublin cityChanges will limit car access to north and south quays and pedestrianise Parliament StreetSat Feb 10 2024 - 05:15
‘A profound tragedy’: Waterford community to hold vigil as boy’s body found in car and woman arrestedGardaí expected to open murder investigation and believe toxicology results will shed light on what happened in Dunmore EastFri Feb 09 2024 - 18:30
Man arrested as gardaí investigate fatal assault in Co KildareVictim (50s) found dead following violent assault where he received apparent stab injuries at residential property in KilcockThu Feb 08 2024 - 21:30
Leixlip fire: Vacant building in Co Kildare damaged in latest suspected anti-immigration arson attackFalse rumours were circulating online that property in Leixlip was earmarked to house asylum seekersWed Feb 07 2024 - 19:26
Tusla unwilling to ‘stand over’ children in unregulated accommodationDemand on child and family agency services has doubled in past 10 yearsTue Feb 06 2024 - 17:43
Journey to EU membership a ‘road with no end’ for North MacedoniaCorruption in daily life and fatigue with stalled EU integration among complaints of ordinary MacedoniansMon Feb 05 2024 - 15:00
Waterford council chase Aperee nursing home over €52,000 debtThree Aperee Living nursing homes ordered to shut by Hiqa over concerns for residents’ safetySun Feb 04 2024 - 08:53
Revenue may investigate RTÉ exit payments amid staff ‘outrage’ at severance dealsKevin Bakhurst, who took over as director general of RTÉ last July, said he was ‘shocked’ by the ‘serious breach of procedure’ around the former chief financial officer’s exit packageThu Feb 01 2024 - 05:00
RTÉ crisis: Another week, another damaging report – and more unanswered questionsKey figures within the broadcaster were in the dark about significant financial decisions being made in Montrose, McCann FitzGerald report findsWed Jan 31 2024 - 20:17
RTÉ report: Exit package paid to former chief financial officer was not approved by managementMinister Catherine Martin said report ‘demonstrates an appalling disregard for the principles of equity, fairness and transparency in the treatment of staff’Wed Jan 31 2024 - 16:54
Asylum system changes ‘are pandering’ to far right, says TDPeople should not be victimised for seeking asylum, Irish Refugee Council saysWed Jan 31 2024 - 13:59
Deal on Stormont return includes ‘significant’ changes, while Varadkar and Sunak clash on Legacy ActHeaton-Harris says details of deal to address DUP’s concerns over post-Brexit trade will be published on WednesdayTue Jan 30 2024 - 21:15
Tusla feared recruitment freeze and cuts to service due to underfundingDocuments show internal Tusla concerns about ‘exodus’ of social workers leaving agency to join HSETue Jan 30 2024 - 06:00
Six top-earning presenters in RTÉ use companies to charge for their servicesThe station’s highest-paid presenter in 2022, according to figures published by the national broadcaster, was former host Ryan TubridyMon Jan 29 2024 - 15:45
No major increase in TV licence court summonses despite significant drop in numbers payingMore than 13,000 court summonses issued over non-payment of TV licence last yearMon Jan 29 2024 - 12:45
