The country’s highest-ranking judge has said the courts must be a ‘backstop’ for resolving civil disputes when all other options have been exhausted.

Newspapers are being inhibited from investigating and publishing on issues of public importance due to the Government’s failure to reform defamation laws.

The Press Council of Ireland and the Office of the Press Ombudsman launched their 2017 report yesterday.

The Press Ombudsman and Press Council have called for regulation of social media to stop spin, lies, and corporate interests distorting debate.

The HSE is involved in a “constant battle” against rogue crisis pregnancy agencies, the Oireachtas committee examining the Eighth Amendment has heard.

The essential work of the print media is no less important than decades ago. But for that work to continue, newspapers must be given a chance to survive, writes TP O’Mahony.

The Irish Press Council has received 35 complaints about the controversial Kevin Myers article.

Consulting breast cancer survivors led to the development of post-operative bras, says Trish Dromey

A SYMPOSIUM on how media covers mental health stories and suicide, organised by the journalism department at the University of Limerick yesterday, heard press ombudsman Seán Donlon argue that we cannot rely on social media, especially social media where output is filtered through an automated, conscience-free technological process rather than a human one, to understand the nuances of life’s tragedies and inevitable implosions.

Like every other startup, cashflow and funding are among the biggest concerns for Theya Healthcare

John Hume wanted to have talks with the IRA Army Council in what senior government officials thought was a plan for a public and damaging confrontation.

No fracking will take place in Ireland until at least 2016, after a two-year study is carried out into the controversial gas extraction method.

A businessman has brought a High Court challenge against Revenue’s determination that he engaged in a complex tax-avoidance transaction.

Exploiting the US president’s Irish ancestry helped Ireland retain its influence on Capitol Hill, writes Ryle Dwyer

The new theatre will offer a venue for professional tours, director Louise Donlon tells Colette Sheridan

A man has told a trial of two men accused of a double murder in Limerick that one of the accused called to his house to collect a gun the morning of the shootings.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has denied that Labour has a secular agenda which drove the decision to close the Vatican embassy.

The Government was wrong to close Ireland’s embassy to the Vatican, a former head of the Department of Foreign Affairs has said.

There’s quiet diplomacy and megaphone diplomacy.

Ryle Dwyer on how Irish affairs figured in US politics as Reagan came to power

ARCHBISHOP Tomás Ó Fiaich visited the United States in May 1979. He was invited to stay at the Irish embassy in Washington by Ambassador Seán Donlon, but he initially declined the invitation.

An influential priest accused the Irish ambassador to the US of trying to thwart attempts to raise the case of the Birmingham Six.

I WAS greatly amused by Nuala Donlon’s letter (May 20) attacking Deputy Mattie McGrath for calling animal rights activists “nothing short of terrorists”.

A former Garda National Immigration Bureau employee has been acquitted of accepting bribes for issuing false visas to Chinese students.

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CORPORATE financier Colm Donlon has been given the responsibility of managing the sale of Dermot Desmond’s London City Airport.

The President of the University of Limerick Professor Roger Downer has resigned from his post for health reasons.

Efforts to secure an end to the IRA’s campaign ultimately proved fruitless, writes Ryle Dwyer.

The former President of the European Parliament, Pat Cox, and the late art historian and philanthropist, John Hunt, have been awarded honorary degrees at the University of Limerick.

THOUSANDS of motorists could escape penalty points and fines after the High Court ruled yesterday that garda devices used to monitor drivers were in breach of the law.

A Dublin man died from multiple injuries three weeks after a motorbike crash while on holiday in Cyprus, an inquest heard today.

FORMER Taoiseach John Bruton has claimed Independent Newspapers threatened in September 1996 to give the Rainbow Coalition bad publicity if the Fine Gael-led Government did not address grievances affecting the group’s interests.

FORMER Justice Minister Patrick Cooney wants a public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the Dublin and Monaghan bombings because he believes his reputation has been “impugned unjustly” by Mr Justice Henry Barron’s report on the atrocities.

THE Government is to announce the creation of at least 1,000 jobs this week.

IDA IRELAND has been warning about massive job losses in the technology sector for the last three years, spokesperson Colm Donlon said yesterday.

UP TO 15,000 jobs in the hi-tech industry are under threat, IDA Ireland has warned.

A €3 MILLION business park developed by the IDA has been lying idle for the last six months because of a failure to attract investors.

ALL Government grants will be withdrawn from Compaq’s Irish operations if a Department of Enterprise inquiry confirms the firm’s Galway facility was in breach of export laws, the IDA has said.

A Co Roscommon man who has been in a Greek jail for the past five months was today acquitted and is due for release this afternoon.

THE large multinationals which have set up call centres in Ireland providing tens of thousands of jobs, which service Europe, the Middle East and Africa, are unlikely to close up and move to a cheaper Far Eastern location according to the IDA.