Ireland

• 32 minutes ago

  

  MEP urges Coveney to access EU funds to ease fodder crisis

  An Independent MEP said the Minister for Agriculture should access special EU funds to help farmers affected by the fodder crisis.

• 45 minutes ago

  

  Varadkar: those with access to garda records must respect confidentiality

  The Transport Minister Leo Varadkar has said that anyone with access to garda records needs to respect confidentiality and keep them private.

• 47 minutes ago

  

  Bray garda faces trial for allegedly forging a letter from DPP

  A garda based in Bray, Co Wicklow is facing trial for allegedly forging a letter from the Office of the DPP.

• 1 hour ago

  

  PAC chairman suggests civil servants are leaking information

  The Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee has suggested that civil servants may be leaking information to the media.

• 1 hour, 42 minutes ago

  

  Hayes: Shatter has 'done a very good job' answering questions

  The junior Finance Minister said the Justice Minister has answered questions about why he failed a breathalyser test at a Garda checkpoint on his way home from the Dáil, but if there are further questions about the incident, he will answer them.

• 1 hour, 43 minutes ago

  

  Taoiseach criticises commentary on Ireland's corporate tax rate

  The Taoiseach has criticised much of the commentary around Ireland's corporate tax rate.

• 2 hours, 1 minute ago

  

  CSO reveals 85% rise in price of potatoes in just over a year

  The weather is being blamed for the rising cost of potatoes.

• 2 hours, 21 minutes ago

  

  US child beauty pageant 'not telling parents to tan their kids'

  One of America's most controversial child beauty pageants is promising the parents of would-be Irish contestants that they do not have to put fake eyelashes and tan on their children.

• 2 hours, 42 minutes ago

  

  RBS and Ulster Bank apps hit by technical glitch

  Ulster Bank and RBS were today scrambling to fix another embarrassing IT glitch that left customers using their popular mobile app unable to access their accounts online.

• 3 hours, 28 minutes ago

  SF lodges complaint against BBC over SF/IRA label

  Sinn Féin has lodged a formal complaint with the BBC after the party's Education Minister in Northern Ireland John O'Dowd was designated a spokesman for SF/IRA during an appearance on Question Time last night.

• 3 hours, 49 minutes ago

  

  Bruton hails jobs boost for indigenous firms

  More than 100 jobs are to be created over the next three years at three Irish firms in Galway and Dublin.

• 4 hours, 17 minutes ago » latest

  

  Hayes: Negotiations have 'concluded' on Haddington Road deal

  The junior Finance Minister Brian Hayes has said unions that do not accept the Haddington Road agreement will not avail of the terms of the deal when the Government enacts the legislation this summer.

• 4 hours, 42 minutes ago

  

  Shatter to face Dáil grilling on incomplete breathalyser test

  The Minister for Justice Alan Shatter will face further questions today over his failure to complete a breathalyser test.

• 4 hours, 58 minutes ago

  

  Wexford Gardaí release woman in Dublin burglaries probe

  Gardaí investigating a series of burglaries in Dublin have released without charge a woman in her thirties, whom they questioned in connection with the robberies.

• 5 hours, 4 minutes ago

  Transatlantic deal to benefit Marine Institute in Galway

  The Marine Institute in Galway looks set to become one of the leading oceanic research centres in the world after today.

• 5 hours, 10 minutes ago

  

  Elderly man dies after car collides with truck in Tipperary

  A man in his early 80s has died in a road crash in Co. Tipperary.

• 5 hours, 36 minutes ago

  

  Group calls for compulsory malnutrition screening in hospitals

  The problem of under-nourished patients in Dublin hospitals is being ignored, according to the Irish Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism.

• 5 hours, 47 minutes ago

  Donegal man due in London court in connection with Hyde Park bombings

  A Donegal man is due to appear at the Old Bailey in London today charged with the murder of four soldiers in the 1982 IRA bombing in London's Hyde Park.

• 5 hours, 50 minutes ago

  

  Finance Minister to launch consumer information campaign

  The Minister for Finance Michael Noonan, along with the EU Commissioner for Consumer Policy, Tonio Borg, will launch an EU information campaign targeted at consumers today.

• 5 hours, 54 minutes ago

  

  Four firms to announce more than 120 new jobs

  More than 120 new jobs are being announced today at four seperate companies in Dublin, Galway and Cork.

• 6 hours, 4 minutes ago

  

  Teaching unions reject deal over supervision and substitution conditions

  Two teaching unions have rejected the Haddington Road Agreement.

• 15 hours, 6 minutes ago

  

  Worker sacked at TV probe creche

  An exclusive creche probed during an undercover investigation into allegations of mistreatment of children has confirmed it has sacked one worker and suspended three others.

• 15 hours, 42 minutes ago

  

  Cannabis growhouse discovered in Monaghan

  Two women have been arrested following the discovery of a cannabis growhouse in Co Monaghan this evening.

• 15 hours, 43 minutes ago

  

  Four held in Wexford as part of probe into Dublin burglaries

  Gardaí investigating burglaries in Dublin have arrested four people and recovered suspected stolen goods in Co. Wexford.

• 19 hours, 15 minutes ago

  

  Motorists in Galway and Donegal face longest waits for NCT appointments

  Motorists in Galway and Donegal face the longest wait for an NCT appointment according to recent figures by the Road Safety Authority.

• 19 hours, 53 minutes ago

  

  Pay cut rules passed into law

  New laws allowing the Government to cut public sector workers’ pay without their agreement have been published.

• 19 hours, 56 minutes ago

  

  Shatter unable to provide breath sample to Garda because of asthma

  Justice Minister Alan Shatter has said he failed to give a breath test at a Garda checkpoint several years ago because he is asthmatic.

• 20 hours, 16 minutes ago

  

  Noonan: Apple tax claims 'clearly wrong and misleading'

  The Finance Minister has said claims that Apple only paid corporation tax of 0.05% on profits here are 'clearly wrong and misleading'.

• 20 hours, 25 minutes ago

  

  Use of cameras threatened to stop dumping of nappies in Kerry

  Residents of Farranfore in Co. Kerry have threatened to use cameras in a bid to catch someone dumping dirty nappies in the village.

• 21 hours, 29 minutes ago

  

  Sinn Fein calls on waterworks plant to stop using strike breakers

  Sinn Fein has called on the management at a plant that treats water for a quarter of a million people in Dublin and Wicklow to stop using strike breakers and to get back around the talks table.

• 22 hours, 2 minutes ago

  

  Revenue closes busiest office after protesters chain themselves to chairs

  Revenue has been forced to close its busiest office in Dublin because of an occupation by protesters.

• 23 hours, 18 minutes ago

  

  Successor to the Croke Park II published

  A successor to the Croke Park II deal - formally called the Haddington Road Agreement has been published - containing the recommendations of the Labour Relations Commission.

• 23 hours, 20 minutes ago

  

  Meat wholesaler arrested in connection with horsemeat scandal

  A meat wholesaler has been arrested in the Netherlands in connection with the horsemeat scandal which gripped Europe at the start of the year.

• 23 hours, 54 minutes ago

  

  More than 2,000 complaints made against gardaí in 2012

  More than 2,000 complaints against gardaí were investigated by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission last year, with more than a third relating to abuse of authority.

• 1 day, 2 minutes ago

  

  Tánaiste asked if Shatter was stopped by gardaí before becoming Minister

  An Independent TD has asked the Tánaiste to confirm whether Alan Shatter was stopped and cautioned by gardaí before being appointed Justice Minister.

• 1 day, 11 minutes ago

  

  Gilmore: Abuse of children at Dublin crèches 'shocking and disappointing'

  "Shocking and disappointing", that is the response of the Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore to allegations of the mishandling and verbal abuse of children at two Dublin crèches.

• 1 day, 21 minutes ago

  

  One third of calls to Childline not answered

  Nearly five million children contacted Childline over the last 25 years but a third of them did not have their calls answered.

• 1 day, 28 minutes ago

  

  High Court hears that payment of promissory note could have huge repercussions

  The High Court has heard a challenge by TD Joan Collins that a €25m promissory note payment which is due next month could have huge repercussions.

• 1 day, 46 minutes ago

  

  Man charged with assault of Cork homeless man found in refuse chute

  A 26-year-old man has been remanded in custody after he was charged with assaulting a homeless man whose body was found dumped in a refuse chute in Cork earlier this month.

• 1 day, 1 hour, 3 minutes ago

  

  Minister to be briefed on allegations against two Dublin creches

  The Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald has said she expects to be briefed today on the childcare controversy to hit two creches in Dublin.