The Education Minister insists discrimination is not tolerated in our schools following the allegations.

A social worker who wrote a letter to garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe in December 2015 containing false allegations of sexual abuse has denied she was “a puppet of the gardaí”.

Update 12.15pm: The University of Limerick has confirm that it has invited the Department of Education and Science to undertake an independent review of a number of areas of governance at the university.

Samai Jalal has implied she was rejected because of her second name

Chris Gayle is facing fresh allegations of sexism after making a series of controversial remarks to a female journalist.

Allegations of an AIB whistleblower who says the bank misled regulators in dealing with corporate loans in arrears raises far wider concerns beyond the specifics of the case, the country’s leading expert on banking and corporate governance said.

Austin Currie, a former junior health minister, insists he acted appropriately in the handling of sex-abuse allegations in the 1990s.

UCD are investigating allegations that a group of male students have shared explicit images in a private online chat group.

Some healthcare workers responsible for people with disabilities being kept in a foster home where rapes allegedly occurred are still employed by the state, it has been revealed.

Bill Cosby is suing model Beverly Johnson over her allegations that he drugged and attempted to sexually assault her in the 1980s.

Former Minister for Communications Pat Carey, 68, has stepped down as Fianna Fail's Director of Elections for the forthcoming General election.

The Dáil's health committee will meet next week to discuss claims that staff at two Dublin hospitals accepted gifts and holidays from medical supplier Eurosurgical.

The bodies of two British backpackers murdered on a beach in Thailand were found partially naked near blood spattered rocks, a Thai court has heard.

More than one in five school staff in Britain and Northern Ireland have had a false allegation made against them by a pupil, a survey has found.

A Limerick GP has revealed he sent Alan Shatter pictures of bruised patients that he claims were beaten in Garda custody, and that the then-justice minister told him more CCTV would be installed in Garda stations.