The latest inspection report from the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) makes frightening reading.

About 11,000 more primary school pupils started school this year than last year, but the allocation of teachers will not catch up until next year.

The Government has pledged another €1m in aid to help support Syrian refugees. This will bring the total Irish aid package to €10.8m.

Independent TD Stephen Donnelly’s assertion that members of the Oireachtas Finance Committee do not take their work “all that seriously” seemed disturbingly real.

Poorer and marginalised groups in Irish society are suffering from cancer rates up to 70% higher than the rest of the population.

The campaign in relation to the proposed abolition of the Seanad got underway in earnest yesterday, with the launching of the One House group calling on the electorate to ratify the 32nd amendment of the Constitution on Oct 4.

The campaign in relation to the proposed abolition of the Seanad got underway in earnest yesterday, with the launching of the One House group calling on the electorate to ratify the 32nd amendment of the Constitution on Oct 4.

A provision of the new personal insolvency arrangements, due to come into effect at the beginning of next week, will effectively allow banks 20 years to claw back mortgage debts written off under certain circumstances.

While the staff of the Irish Examiner wishes to join with the family of Seamus Heaney in mourning his passing, it is also important that he should be celebrated as one of the world’s greatest men of letters.

Paul Revere, the American patriot, has gone down in history as the man who warned his fellow countrymen at the outbreak of the American War of Independence in 1775 that “the British are coming”.