Vivienne Clarke

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Vivienne Clarke is a reporter

Spinal surgery failings: ‘Sad little faces’ of TDs are no good to children, says group

Parents are terrified and angry with ‘drip feed’ of communication from Children’s Health Ireland, says spina bifida advocacy organisation

Data centre energy use ‘heading toward 30%’ of Ireland’s supply, claims environmental group

Granting of permission to Amazon for three new data centres will lock us into dependency on fossil fuels, says Friends of the Earth

Ploughing Championships: Wet weather hits attendance figures as Minister is challenged by farmers

‘You need to get fighting’: Farming group representative tackles Charlie McConalogue over EU nitrates derogation

Temple Street: Publish full details from scoliosis surgery reports immediately, legal adviser says

Minister says children were failed at the hospital and it should never happen again

Bord na Móna paying tax bill for chief’s €127,000 electric BMW ‘is unacceptable’

Semi-states should cap car purchase at €60,000, Fine Gael TD Fergus O’Dowd says

Confusion over excess Covid deaths in absence of public inquiry, Staines says

Professor calls for public inquiry into pandemic so Ireland can ‘learn from what went right and what went wrong’

Varadkar criticises ‘double standards’ in UK government following his united Ireland comments

Chris Heaton-Harris referenced ‘unhelpful comments down in Dublin’ after Taoiseach expressed belief he would see unification in his lifetime

Taoiseach says RTÉ will not be put under pressure to sell Montrose site

Broadcaster defends value of €240,000 Fair City photography contract

RTÉ ‘working to cut costs’, Bakhurst to tell Oireachtas media committee, as broadcaster freezes recruitment

Committee will hear about 10% pay rises and car allowances revealed in RTÉ documents

ISPCA spending €500,000 over budget as it pays for emergency private kennels

Number of dogs being abandoned this year is ‘unprecedented’, says charity chief executive

Businesses warn they must pass on VAT increases to customers

Restoring VAT to 13.5% ‘will ultimately have an inflationary impact’ and influence people’s spending decisions, hotels’ federation says

Variation in child mental health services across HSE is ‘unacceptable’

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services have ‘systemic issues’ nationwide, Mental Health Commission chief says

UK’s air traffic control ‘fiasco’ to cost airline industry £100m, Willie Walsh says

Former Aer Lingus chief calls for thorough investigation to ensure collapse of system does not happen again

Treatment improvements in children’s cancer services leads to higher survival rates

National Cancer Registry statistics highlights significant reductions in mortality reflecting advances in early detection

RTÉ's proposed ‘register of interests’ could apply to staff and contractors paid over €73,000

The scoping document outlines plans to bring existing policies together