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Beth O’Reilly from the USI holds an electricity bill at the protest against rising prices outside the Dáil. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill
Cost-of-living protest: ‘We’re planning a weekly dinner for elderly neighbours so they’d at least have a hot meal’

With prices rising and incomes having to stretch further, Mary Ryder said her neighbours in Dublin 8 had been “talking about organising a weekly dinne(...)

Paul Hyde had insisted the allegations made against him were groundless. File photograph
Bord Pleanála deputy chair can not access systems until investigations end – Taoiseach

The deputy chairman of An Bord Pleanála will not have access to his electronic systems or documentation until investigations into alleged conflicts of(...)

Paul Hyde had insisted the allegations made against him were groundless. File photograph
Bord Pleanála deputy chair can not access systems until investigations end – Taoiseach

The deputy chairman of An Bord Pleanála will not have access to their electronic systems or documentation until investigations into alleged conflicts (...)

The Cobblestone in Dublin.
Developer drops planning appeal over hotel at Cobblestone pub

Developers behind plans to build a hotel surrounding the Cobblestone bar in Smithfield, which were refused by Dublin City Council last year, have drop(...)

Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman said the State was dealing with a crisis ‘the country has never had to experience before’
Aramark awarded contract to provide meals to Ukrainian refugees

Catering company Aramark has been given a State contract to provide meals to centres for Ukrainian refugees without going through a standard procureme(...)

Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s address to a joint sitting of the Oireachtas was the first given by the leader of a country under attack by another country, with parts of its territory under occupation. Photograph: Oireachtas TV/PA
Zelenskiy address: No pomp or frills, just a direct and uncompromising message

There was no pomp, no ceremony, no frills. Just a guy on a television screen wearing green fatigues delivering a message that was stark and direct and(...)

Video footage from the Dáil chamber shows the People Before Profit TDs stood, but did not applaud. Photograph: Maxwells/PA Wire
People Before Profit TDs defend decision not to clap for Zelenskiy Oireachtas address

People Before Profit/Solidarity TDs have defended a decision not to applaud following Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s address to the Houses (...)

Staff numbers at Dublin airport were cut during the pandemic and the fall-off in travel, and DAA is now scrambling to recruit 300 people. Photograph: Getty Images
Dublin airport under growing pressure to cut passenger delays

The Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) is under mounting pressure to cut passenger delays as it also sustained heavy criticism over the terms and conditio(...)

Has Micheál Martin gone raving mad? Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Miriam Lord: Micheál’s back on the yokes? That can’t be right

Our paths almost crossed on the landing outside the main doors to the Dáil chamber. Micheál Martin bustled straight over. “I’m back on the yokes!” B(...)

Dublin Airport security queue. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
Dublin Airport accused of ‘race to the bottom’ on conditions for security staff

Dublin Airport operator DAA has been accused of a “race to the bottom” due to the working conditions on offer to security staff it is seeking to hire (...)

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