General secretary of the union, Mike Jennings warned of the consequences of ending Croke Park I before the agreement has run out “in 2014”.  Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times

The Irish Federation of University Teachers (Ifut) voted unanimously this afternoon to reject any renegotiation of Croke Park II. The uni(...)

Pat Rabbitte  said he respected the views of everybody involved but the Government was “under injunctions from the Supreme Court” to produce legislation. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times

Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte has said he believes a “restrictive regime” for access to abortion will be agreed by the Government. S(...)

In the horse meat scandal and others, the buck should have stopped somewhere; someone was responsible. Photographer: Mario Proenca/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Once again, this time in the case of the death of Savita Halappanavar, a “systems failure” has been put forward to explain shortcomings in her (...)

Some 13 women from Mauritius, Nepal and India who had been working in Ireland as eyebrow threaders have been taken to court by their former emp(...)

Dr Aoife Kavanagh at the Medical Council earlier this year. Photograph: Alan Betson / THE IRISH TIMES

A Medical Council fitness-to-practise inquiry against a GP who allegedly failed to respond to requests for help in a timely manner, and treated(...)

Child rapporteur  Geoffrey Shannon: “The question is whether sufficient efforts are being made to support families.”   Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill

The Health Service Executive initiated 20 per cent more childcare cases last year than it did in 2011, according to new data r(...)

Ikea in Ballymun, Dublin. Planning consultant for Ikea Tom Phillips said the company was willing to make a “multimillion investment” in the area, and had been speaking to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council about it for “three years and a month”. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

A Dublin local authority should be giving furniture giant Ikea the “red carpet treatment” instead of excludin(...)

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Photograph: Olivier Morin/AFP/Getty Images

A report from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Committee of Ministers published yesterday has called on the Government to implement le(...)

The Medical Council was criticised by some candidates for extending voting by 10 days on the day the polls were due to close. Photograph: David Sleator

Six new members have been elected to the Medical Council, the organisation has announced. The doctors were voted in by fellow medics from a fie(...)

Mr Justice George Birmingham said the  facilities and staffing resources in St Andrew’s psychiatric hospital in Northampton, England, were “significantly better” than those available in Ireland. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons

A High Court judge has said it is regrettable that specialist psychiatric services do not exist in Ireland to treat a 16-year-old boy who is to(...)

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