Richard Boyd Barrett

Kathleen Rogers has a terminal illness – motor neurone disease. Coping with a terminal diagnosis is an exhausting challenge. Recently, it has become e(...)

Tax and excise duty accounts for almost 80 per cent of the price of a 20 pack of cigarettes, the Dáil has heard. During a debate on the budget increa(...)

The budget is “papering over the cracks” again rather than beginning the work of building an Irish national health service that everyone would be prou(...)

A further two people diagnosed with coronavirus have died and 814 new cases have been reported, the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) said(...)

There is no plan to extend the school mid-term break, Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said. “It is not going to be extended,” he confirmed. (...)

Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys has signalled that the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) could be extended beyond April next year, (...)

As yet another crisis broke over their drooping heads, an emergency helpline was put in place for the frightened and the bewildered who are now at bre(...)

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has warned that there will be no Irish forestry industry by the end of October or November unless legislation before the Dáil(...)

Scottish health authorities contacted Ireland seeking assistance with Covid-19 testing but the State could not help, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has told(...)

Cuts to the top rate of the pandemic unemployment payment to €300 a week have been described as “hugely disappointing” by arts campaigners and Opposit(...)