The Law Reform Commission has today published recommendations for the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) to be given additional powers of regulation and inspection in order to ensure proper standards in the care of elderly and vulnerable people at home.

The latest Red C Poll in the Sunday Business Post indicates 72% of the electorate desire a referendum on any new European treaty.

In a few weeks time, thousands of doctors, nurses, teachers, gardaí, and other civil servants are going to take early retirement in order to avail of the best pension deal.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny stirred up a hornets’ nest when he complained at Davos that “people simply went mad borrowing” in this country.

The Taoiseach is attempting to rewrite history by blaming the Irish people for the country’s economic difficulties and accusing them of going “mad… borrowing”.

Freedom of speech is a fundamental plank of democracy. To deny anyone the right to express his or her views it to engage in censorship of the worst kind.

The Personal Insolvency Bill unveiled yesterday by Finance Minister Michael Noonan and Minister for Justice Alan Shatter is designed to reform the country’s outdated bankruptcy laws.

There was a time when owning a pub seemed like the stamp of real success.

Ireland’s neonatal and maternal death rates have been a source of pride to the medical community in recent years.

There is no way of sugarcoating the payment of €1.2bn of public money to private Anglo bondholders.