Cullen and Lavin claim banks did them ‘a great injustice’Apprentice star and partner speak out about loss of car dealership and hotel businessSat Feb 8 2014 - 14:51
Campaigners argue that caring should be classified as ‘public health concern’Study finds up to 15% of carers of children with special behavioural needs are depressedFri Feb 7 2014 - 01:00
‘Sit-in’ protest at Mount Carmel on last dayStaff spoke of their last day as `like ripping a family apart'Sat Feb 1 2014 - 01:00
Last day for Mount Carmel hospital after 65 yearsMost of the 300 staff are completing their last shift at the private hospital todayFri Jan 31 2014 - 18:15
Lufthansa workers appeal to Government to protect plantFirst 100 of the 411 highly skilled workers to be laid off tomorrowThu Jan 30 2014 - 13:23
Penalty point cancellations ‘horrifying’ and ‘depressing’, says Gay ByrneTraffic gardaí being undermined by senior officers, road safety chairman saysMon Jan 27 2014 - 01:00
Gabriel Byrne says Government ‘paying lip-service’ to artsEx-cultural ambassador disappointed Culture Ireland was ‘summarily cancelled’Sat Jan 25 2014 - 16:06
Lack of nurses in community preventing ‘tracheostomy’ baby going homeBaby, aged 16 months, has been ready to go home since JulyFri Jan 24 2014 - 01:00
CRC service users and staff give their reaction to pension payments“If I think about it too much I just get really angry,” says father of woman whose physiotheray hours were reduced by halfSat Jan 18 2014 - 01:00
Interim charities regulator to be appointed by next monthShatter moves swiftly to install regulatory body in wake of damning CRC revelationsFri Jan 17 2014 - 19:46
National day of action against closure of hospitals plannedFirst meeting of campaign to save local hospitals is heldSat Jan 11 2014 - 17:51
Labour to discuss grant eligibility criteriaCharity says changes would make it more difficult for frail older people to stay at homeFri Jan 10 2014 - 01:00
‘It feels like Government doesn’t care a damn about people like us’Spinal injury sufferer Mary Carey was refused a grant to adapt her home in Navan Co MeathFri Jan 10 2014 - 01:00
Taoiseach defends changes to funding scheme for elderlyKenny says funding for grant system was being increasedThu Jan 9 2014 - 16:58
Grant cuts to make it ‘harder’ for elderly to live at homeChanges to housing grants for older and disabled people to take immediate effectThu Jan 9 2014 - 01:00
GP group adds voice to worries about abortion ActDoctors “surprised and concerned” at enactment of abortion legislation without guidelinesSat Jan 4 2014 - 01:00
College tells psychiatrists not to do abortion assessmentsPsychiatrists say implementation of new abortion Act ‘completely unsatisfactory’Fri Jan 3 2014 - 00:25
Seizures of counterfeit alcohol up fourfold‘Jimmy Choo’ and ‘Ugg’ shoes among over €3m worth of fake goods seized by CustomsMon Dec 30 2013 - 01:00
Bootleg alcohol seizures rise dramaticallyRevenue figures suggest fall in smuggled tobacco and cigarette activitySat Dec 28 2013 - 16:57
Drop-in centre for homeless now facing its own funding crisisFocus Ireland’s services under threat next year as CRC scandal takes its tollFri Dec 20 2013 - 01:00
Housing units to be ‘ring-fenced’ for long-term homelessCivil servants will be charged with sourcing up to 2,000 units of accommodationFri Dec 20 2013 - 01:00
Simon Communities at ‘breaking point’ as numbers seeking help up 24%Charity says cuts being implemented disproportionately across the StateThu Dec 19 2013 - 01:00
€1.2m funding for ‘tracheostomy’ babiesAdvocacy group ‘happy’ with funding streamThu Dec 19 2013 - 01:00
Food poverty affects 457,000 people across the State‘Sometimes we eat noodles for dinner, just to make the food last longer in the week’Tue Dec 17 2013 - 01:00
Ireland ready to cast off shackles of bailout, says TaoiseachKenny says tackling child poverty a ‘critical issue’Fri Dec 13 2013 - 01:01
Call for end to religious discrimination by schoolsProtection afforded to denominational education could be protected, says ombudsmanThu Dec 12 2013 - 18:12
For children with no baptismal certificate the school gates seem to be closedOpinion: The State surely has a duty to offer parents access to secular education for their childrenThu Dec 12 2013 - 00:01
Some schools actively discourage children with special needs from enrolingPreference for children of past pupils a ‘significant’ obstacle to Travellers’ educationWed Dec 11 2013 - 21:51
Share of household income from welfare up 50%Report stresses need to target child povertyWed Dec 11 2013 - 07:51
Keeping my baby: the single-parent choiceDocumentary tells of isolation and hatred faced by unmarried Irish women in the not-too-distant pastWed Dec 11 2013 - 01:00
Boy refused school place for almost two yearsChildren’s Ombudsman says it is responsibility of Department of Education to ensure schools in a catchment area can cater for all pupilsTue Dec 10 2013 - 22:11
Condolence book signed for ‘greatest African leader of his time’Book of condolences for Nelson Mandela opened at the South African ambassador’s residenceMon Dec 9 2013 - 17:49
Former Dunnes Stores strikers begin ‘emotional’ journey back to South AfricaWorkers went to South Africa in 1985 when on strike but were denied entryMon Dec 9 2013 - 01:00
Call for Dunnes strikers to attend Mandela funeral‘We were determined we were not going back to work if we had to handle South African goods’Sat Dec 7 2013 - 07:31
Retailers support call to bring back ‘Christmas bonus’ paymentNGOs and TDs say it would boost economy and alleviate poverty at ChristmasThu Dec 5 2013 - 01:01
Atlantic Philanthropies’ $1.1bn is ‘drop in ocean’ next to what State can investVulnerable are being pushed away from central decision-making, says foundation memberThu Dec 5 2013 - 01:00
Family awaits decision from AG on inquest into Sligo deathDhara Kivlehan died of multi-organ failure a week after the birth of her first childWed Dec 4 2013 - 07:21
Women’s prison has ‘lost its way’, says inspectorMassive overcrowding at the root of all problems in management of Dóchas CentreWed Dec 4 2013 - 01:00
Study finds almost 80% of transgender people have considered suicide44 per cent have engaged in some form of self-harm.Mon Dec 2 2013 - 01:01
Lifting the lid on a decade of domestic slavery in Ireland‘Maria’ recently emerged from a 10-year ordeal, the longest case yet discovered in Ireland. Her experience suggests we have poor supports for dealing with such casesSat Nov 30 2013 - 01:00
Minister commits to protocol for timely ‘tracheostomy' dischargesAdvocacy group meets Dr James Reilly over crisisWed Nov 27 2013 - 22:38
Call for local authorities to transfer empty properties to housing associationsFocus Ireland conference hears 3,500 dwellings vacant but too expensive for councils to make habitableWed Nov 27 2013 - 18:05
HSE homecare package ‘falling apart’, say parents of tracheostomy twinsKildare couple fear they will have to bring baby boys back to hospitalWed Nov 27 2013 - 05:29
Tracheostomy Group to meet MinisterGroups seeks implementation of 2008 protocol on babies’ discharge from hospitalWed Nov 27 2013 - 01:00
Traveller protest at ‘total failure’ of accommodation strategyTraveller accommodation committee says more than 1,200 families effectively homeless, more than in 1999Tue Nov 26 2013 - 01:00
Hate letters to mosques referred to gardaíCorrespondence warns of ‘attacks’ on Muslims throughout IrelandMon Nov 25 2013 - 15:55
Familes living without water or electricity in oldest purpose-built Traveller siteNew units have been promised since 1999 for Dublin siteMon Nov 25 2013 - 01:00
Rough sleeping trebles in Dublin in one yearDraft action plan on homelessness points to severe challenges delivering national policyMon Nov 25 2013 - 01:00
Traveller accommodation crisisEvery local authority has to plan its Traveller housing for the next five years. But the programmes’ recent history suggests that few of the proposals will be implementedSat Nov 23 2013 - 01:00