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Doctors and private practice; our oil reserves; Aughinish Alumina; Intel's turnaround
Two consultants are taking two separate judicial reviews against the HSE seeking the right to offer private care in new publicly funded surgical hubs.From Kharg Island in the Gulf of Hormuz Persian…
Parnell Square stabbing trial; Ireland’s ageing population; Children’s reading and maths skills
The trial of Riad Bouchaker resumes today and the Central Criminal Court. He has pleaded not guilty to a number of charges relating to the stabbings in Parnell Square in 2023 in which several people,…
Anti immigration protests in Belfast; Canadian PM's Mayo visit; relocating flood prone communities
Hundreds of protesters gathered on the Newtownards Road in east Belfast where a bus was hijacked and set alight, stoking racial tensions after a horrific attack on a man in his 40s on Monday…
Sentencing of Sean McGovern; should Ireland consider nuclear energy?
Sean McGovern, a senior figure in the Kinahan cartel, has received what The Irish Times understands to be one of the longest gangland sentences in Irish history.There has been a rise in reports of…
Concerns over staffing in An Garda Síochána; the rise of ‘free births’ in Ireland
An Garda Síochána is facing what insiders are calling a “ticking time-bomb” of retirements as new projections show nearly 1,700 Garda members are due to retire over the next decade.Concerns have been…
The Russian oligarch believed to control Aughinish Alumina; supermarket turf war
A confidential report by Swedish authorities claims the Russian billionaire, Oleg Deripaska, still controls the metals giant Rusal, which owns the Aughinish Alumina plant in County Limerick, despite…
Lidl warns government; Trump's UFC ring; Shergar; Rotunda row reaction
The planning system for commercial development is being exploited, sometimes for anticompetitive purposes through spurious objections, supermarket chain Lidl has said.There’s been a huge reaction…
Car scrappage scheme; Rotunda Hospital; Leaving Cert; Space X; Big feet blues
People with petrol and diesel cars that are more than 13 years old are to be eligible for grants of €8,500 to purchase a new electric vehicle (EV) under a State scrappage scheme.The Rotunda maternity…
Jeffrey Donaldson trial; rise in arson attacks on council houses
The jury hearing the trail of former DUP leaderJeffrey Donaldson, 63, has been told he wrote a letter to one of the two alleged victims expressing “regret” and that he had sought God’s forgiveness.…
Irish visas for Russians; ADHD and addiction; reckoning for dating apps
There are concerns ‘hostile’ agents may be among the 14,000 Russians granted Irish visas in the past four years.The Government hopes to make “swift progress” pushing forward negotiations on Ukraine’s…
Naval service names online; wind farm objections; most annoying phrases
The names of dozens of Defence Forces personnel, including those involved in intelligence work and sensitive counterdrug smuggling operations, are being published online by the European Union,…
Is Sinn Féin still seen as left wing? New anti-drone technology for the defence forces
There are tensions between left wing parties and Sinn Fein on the policy direction of Mary Lou McDonald’s party following its performance in the Dublin Central and Galway West byelections.Ireland’s…
Kyne and Ennis elected to the Dáil; HSE waiting lists; the trial of Jeffrey Donaldson
The Dáil has two new TD’s; Daniel Ennis from the Social Democrats and Sean Kyne from Fine Gael. Political correspondents Cormac McQuinn and Marie O’Halloran explain who they are.Plans to rezone a…
Polls open in byelections; Paul Rudd on filming in Dublin; Under the Hawthorn Tree
Voters in Dublin and Galway are going to the polls in two byelections on Friday after intense canvassing in the closing days of the campaign and efforts by candidates to ensure their supporters turn…
Meta job losses; RTÉ salary row; more registered voters that residents in some areas
Meta is to cut 350 jobs from it’s Irish workforce amid a global round of layoffs affecting around 8000 roles worldwide.RTÉ has faced tough questions at an Oireachtas committee about newly disclosed…
Dodgy boxes; more flotilla boats set for Gaza intercepted; What happened to Yves Sakilas
200 users of so-called dodgy boxes used to illegally stream live TV have been issued with cease and desist notices.Rents across Ireland have just shot up at the fastest rate ever recorded, rising…
Tobacco lobbyists; sexually abusive homes; A.I. in schools
Irish diplomats in Brussels have been warned to be on high alert for lobbying by the tobacco industry.The European Commission has signalled tighter restrictions on exports that could be used by…
Irregular betting on by election; bodyguards to protect special care staff
There are serious questions about betting activity linked to Friday’s by-election in Dublin Central in which $1 million (€860,000) was placed and then withdrawn with little or no profit.Immigration,…
Dublin Central by election; trouble for Kier Starmer; Trump in Beijing
Sinn Féin’s Janice Boylan leads the race for the Dublin Central by election according to a new Irish Times/ TG4 poll.A UK Labour MP has stepped down paving the way for Andy Burnham to run for…
Ballooning national debt, women and cycling, and Patrick Freyne’s ‘history of sexy tellly’
Ireland’s national debt could approach a quarter of a trillion euro by the 2030s, the head of the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) will tell an Oireachtas committee on Thursday.Aggressive…
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