Future of Media Commission chairman Brian MacCraith: Body  is being funded through the Department of the Taoiseach. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

A commission set up to examine the future of media in Ireland has so far cost the taxpayer almost €240,000. The Future of Media Commission – which ha(...)

The draft email says the project would ‘provide a central and integrated insight centre and platform that better informs our cross-government C-19 response. Photograph: NIAID-RML via AP

Consultants working for the Government discussed setting up a “war room” for a data-driven “integrated insight centre” on Covid-19 dubbed “One Governm(...)

The Taoiseach has been criticised for failing to provide details on the process on deciding on a new €292,000-a-year salary for the next Department of Health secretary general. File photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins

The Taoiseach and other senior Government figures have been criticised for failing to provide details on the process on deciding on a new €292,000-a-y(...)

Leo Varadkar  considers it timely to review collective bargaining and the industrial relations landscape in Ireland. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

It is timely now to review the country’s industrial relations landscape given legal challenges to parts of the existing system and international devel(...)

Point-to-point racing has been given the green light to resume in a restricted format from April 10th. It is understood only races for four and five (...)

 Horse Racing Ireland  chief executive Brian Kavanagh. Photograph: Laszlo Geczo/Inpho

Confidence has been expressed in point-to-point racing’s ability to safely resume action next month. The grassroots arm of National Hunt racing – wh(...)

A file photograph of Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar meeting the Grand Secretary of the Orange Lodge, Rev Mervyn Gibson at Government Buildings. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

North-South relations will fall into a “downward spiral” unless unionist anger over the Northern Ireland protocol is addressed, a senior Orangeman has(...)

Liz Canavan, Assistant Secretary to the Department of An Taoiseach said the rise in cases is being driven by house visits. File photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins

The number of Covid-19 outbreaks increased last week by 65 to 404 as numbers remain stubbornly high. Households accounted for 258 new outbreaks, up 5(...)

Solar panels at Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Co Tipperary. Photograph: Alan Betson

There was a time solar energy was quickly put in the “will never happen in Ireland” category, but dozens of developments are set to come on stream in (...)

Chief medical officer Tony Holohan: A senior official suggests there is a “central problem” with the power located in Nphet, namely that “focusing purely on the disease leads to a certain view”.

In his inimitable style, former Downing Street adviser Dominic Cummings this week described the UK’s department of health as a “smoking ruin” during t(...)

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