Programme designed to avoid premature admissions to long-term residential care

€182m scheme in Westmeath will see the delivery of 174 social housing units

Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran, Ruth Coppinger and Noel Rock on losing their Dáil seats in 2020

Friends of the Irish Environment challenged An Bord Pleanála over planning permission

Status red, the highest level warning, issued for Clare and Galway as winds batter country

Residents taken from Springfield in Co Clare while other counties brace for floods

Many names come from a place’s attributes, while the origins of others are unknowable

Shannon, Moy, Corrib catchment areas face more heavy downpours in coming days

Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran worried about effect on young people entering politics

Westmeath County Council investigating source of ‘very serious’ pollution

Number of homeless families in midlands reached 45 towards end of April

Junior Cert student Stephen Cassidy fractured ankle in fall near his Athlone home

Permission granted on appeal for project covering 12 maturation warehouses

Companies say 2013 decision could affect 11,000 jobs and bring industry to ‘a standstill’

Audit report shows councils take on average over seven months to re-let houses

Prospective presidential candidate says she has no intention of standing for Oireachtas

Site on 4.23 acres without planning permission was formerly part of larger development

Friends of the Irish Environment considering an appeal

Greenways have achieved the seemingly impossible task of convincing land owners to allow strangers on their land without any compensation – how did they manage it?

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