When organisations as disparate as IBEC, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, the Irish Association of Pension Funds and the Society of Actuaries in Ireland find common cause and warn Government of a looming crisis then only a foolish politician would look the other way and hope the problem will resolve itself.

Launching the 2012 report of the Courts Service of Ireland Chief Justice Susan Denham yesterday said that ethics in the boardroom and in the governance of enterprises rather than an exclusive focus on the hopes of shareholders is needed to rebuild trust in Ireland’s business sector.

On Saturday, 35,000 people marched through Dublin City centre as part of an anti-abortion protest.

Nearly every family in this country frets that a son or a daughter, a nephew or a niece, or even a neighbour’s child, will get whatever opportunities they need to build a new life in a foreign country.

Beset by gnawing worries of failing an exam or of not finding a job here in Ireland’s ongoing economic crisis, and with their peers leaving in droves to seek work abroad, it is not surprising that depression and anxiety are increasing at an alarming rate among third-level college students.

Daylight robbery topped the bill in the Dáil yesterday as TDs discussed the prospect of the country coming out of darkness and shedding a little more light on daily life.

WHY has it taken seven years to explain the death of an elderly woman choked to death by a restraint cord when sleeping in a hospital chair in the same room as a care assistant?

THE sense of personal confusion among teenagers and younger children with a transgender condition can only be imagined by people whose gender identity is clear.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter yesterday announced the closure of St Patrick’s Institution for young offenders in Dublin.

The Protected Disclosure Bill is designed to act as a charter for whistleblowers by affording them significant employment protection. This, in turn, should act as a major weapon in exposing corruption.