The ordeal endured by a Cork woman in making a complaint against a solicitor raises questions about how such complaints are dealt with and public confidence in the system

Excluding social housing bodies from home defects redress, and the reason for doing so, would be laughable if it weren’t so damaging, writes Special Correspondent Mick Clifford

Mick Clifford believes the political reaction to this week's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report and calls to delay the rise in carbon tax show that leadership on the world's climate crisis is sorely lacking

Having put pensions on the long finger, the State's new scheme is like bringing a few buckets of water to a house fire

Why not strive to improve the response to all people who flee war wherever it occurs?

There are an estimated 100,000 apartments with fire safety defects dating from the Celtic Tiger building boom

Some arguments in favour of revising Ireland's neutrality may be wrong — but suggestions that such views are driven only by a hunger for war help nobody, including the people of Ukraine

Last Friday the High Court handed down a ruling that should be a source of national shame. Judge Siobhan Phelan determined that the HSE’s idea of assessing whether children have particular needs was contrary to the law.

There is recent experience in this country of how the public moves on from a humanitarian crisis that corrals public attention for a defined spell

Ireland has committed €9m to the EU's total €500m worth of arms and aid to the Ukrainian military. Presumably, any Irish representatives left the room when the EU decided to donate the money