Tánaiste plays down fears of food and medical shortages on visit to ploughing championships

Noel Rock’s Bill seeks to outlaw event ticket trading at prices above original face value

Hundreds of match tickets advertised on Viagogo well in excess of face value of €150

For the fourth time in less than a decade, plans to impose rules on a hugely profitable sector have stalled

Changes proposed by Humphreys will not come into effect ahead of Christmas shopping period

RTÉ’s role as ‘primary custodian’ of symphonic music must be challenged

Department of Justice says it ‘fully complied’ with tribunal’s orders of discovery

Joan Burton says claims of what happened women at Gate Theatre ‘hardly actually believable’

Archaeologist says find at Cork site is of ‘exceptional significance’

Vintners are campaigning against law seeking to automatically ban all drink-drivers

Most artists subsist on extremely low incomes, usually dependent on several sources

Analysis: Eir plans may lead to legal challenge – and cause conflict between Ministers

Creative Ireland initiative to follow up last year’s successful Reflecting the Rising

Woodlands of Killarney National Park, a national treasure, facing a noxious threat

New three-year plan contains too many commitments and not enough priorities

Analysis: Much of the investment and many of targets can be found in previous documents

When it comes to preserving biodiversity, governments are all talk and no action. It will take more than the UN’s Cancún Declaration to reverse habitat loss and extinction

Environmental Protection Agency’s latest report makes for a very sobering read

Professors, solicitors and curators among appointees

Much-publicised initiative is being removed from the Department of Communications

Department claims buildings at centre of controversy were ‘in ruins’ prior to Rising

Minister for Heritage Heather Humphreys says buildings retain 18th-century elements

Minister of State Joe McHugh says strong local support required

‘Scandal’ that oak road on Mayne Bog, dating to 1200-820 BC, not surveyed or preserved

Almost 300 years of parish registers to be made available by National Library of Ireland

‘Absolutely Fabulous’ actor Joanna Lumley declares Sligo has stolen her heart

Walk from Roscommon to Dublin honours the ‘missing 1,490’ Strokestown tenants

See how Joan Burton, Enda Kenny, Gerry Adams, Micheál Martin and Mary Lou McDonald performed this year

Ongoing controversy over water charges has left the Coalition listing badly

Eamon Ó Cuiv seeks assurance island funding will continue

Minister and ambassadors attend first World War commemoration in Glasnevin

Junior minister a bright and eager student, his teacher says

In recent months, the Taoiseach has been at the business end of a severe bludgeoning, but he hasn’t flinched