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‘Loss of confidence’ as number of homeless families rises
- Social Affairs
- March 29, 2018, 01:00
As new figures show a huge increase in the number of homeless families, two of Ireland’s leading housing campaigners say they have “lost all confidenc(...)

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar extended an invitation to Donald Trump to visit Ireland when he met the US president for the first time on Thursday in the Whit(...)

Students announce end of TCD occupation
- Education
- March 15, 2018
Students who occupied a building in Trinity College Dublin have announced an end to the protest that began earlier this week over the introduction of (...)

Decision on Clonkeen College board will follow legal challenge
- Education
- March 8, 2018, 11:07
Any decision on whether to dissolve Clonkeen College’s board of management will not take place until after a High Court challenge over the sale of the(...)

Miriam Lord: Leo asked to explain his boy-lateral team
- Oireachtas
- February 13, 2018, 22:06
Leo must have misread the memo. They were supposed to be “bilateral” talks in Stormont on Monday. But the Taoiseach, it seems, thought he was attend(...)

Irexit: Could it be Ireland’s next big political movement?
- Politics
- February 10, 2018
Flames of populism may have ignited the political infernos of Donald Trump and Brexit in 2016 and sparked growing Euroscepticism across Europe, but in(...)

Minister seeks AG advice on planned sale of school playing fields
- Irish News
- February 9, 2018, 05:45
An ongoing dispute between the Christian Brothers and a south Dublin Catholic secondary school over the planned sale of playing fields has been referr(...)

Move to ban issuing of fossil fuel exploration licences in Ireland
- Politics
- February 6, 2018, 20:15
A move to ban the issuing of fossil fuel exploration licences in Ireland features in a proposed Bill to be put before the Dáil by Solidarity-People Be(...)

Mitchell O’Connor pledges support to Clonkeen College board
- Education
- February 5, 2018, 22:05
Minister of State for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O’Connor has voiced her support for the Clonkeen College board of management in its dispute with (...)

Parents, teachers back school in row with Christian Brothers
- Social Affairs
- January 31, 2018, 18:55
Parents, teachers and pupils at a Catholic secondary school in south Dublin have criticised its patron, the Edmund Rice Schools Trust (ERST), over pla(...)