Foster acknowledges pain caused to thousands as survivors seek public inquiry

Questions over infant mortality rates and forced adoption expected to be raised by report

Transport secretary says backlog cleared at Kent site allowing lorries head for France

Christmas Music concert recorded in aid of the appeal is now available online

Staff told closure of Salvation Army service due to ‘significant shortfalls’ in budget

State encapsulates demographic, social divides driving political polarisation in the US

Tusla investigation finds former senior figure in voluntary body abused children

Value of cleaners, and supermarket and shop workers now glaringly obvious

‘The State built 8,500 social houses in 1975, but was able to build only 750 two years ago’

Myanmar’s leader subjected to scathing crriticism over treatment of Rohingya minority

Rohingya supporters shout ‘shame on you!’ as Myanmar’s civilian leader leaves court in The Hague

Avalon House on Aungier Street would be State’s largest facility for rough sleepers

Critical report should be ‘seared into brain of every policy influencer’, says Fianna Fáil TD

Once a booming automotive centre, Flint is ravaged by drugs, bad water and joblessness

For three decades the young Irishman's family has agonised over his disappearance

Archbishop of Dublin Michael Jackson highlights ‘church of the whole island’

Quebec Letter: Canadian luxury transatlantic liner sank in icy waters in 1914

Ibrahim Musa (64) is currently living in a shelter despite risk to his kidney transplant

‘I am in good shape compared to the way I was,’ says former Belfast rough sleeper

Remarks came in her first address to the nation since attacks by Rohingya Muslim insurgents