Additional charges imposed on older people and their families under the Fair Deal scheme stop some from accessing nursing home care.

Latest: Sinn Féin has accused the Government of "bully-boy tactics" and of trying to "sabotage" the water committee.

The Dáil will debate another motion from Sinn Féin this afternoon to scrap water charges.

Pat Hickey has said he will fight the charges against him 100%.

Changes are on the way for how much motorists can be charged for clamping release rates.

Fianna Fáil has denied they are opposing water charges to make them more popular with the public.

Poland’s justice minister is reviving an effort to have filmmaker Roman Polanski extradited to the US, where he is wanted in a nearly 40-year-old case.

Russia’s sports minister has said no one will face criminal charges over the worst doping scandal in the country’s history.

US actor Bill Cosby has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman at his home 12 years ago – the first criminal charges brought against the comedian out of the torrent of allegations that destroyed his good-guy image.

Sinn Féín has warned that the only way to get Irish Water off the state's balance sheet is to increase water charges.

A Government Minister said the low rate of payment for Irish Water is not a "disaster".

The European Union has agreed to end mobile roaming charges within two years and allow travellers to pay the same price for calls, text messages and data anywhere in the 28 EU nations.

Hundreds of women staged a silent vigil outside Coolock Garda Station last night. 

The way that Government approached the introduction of water charges clearly points to an administration intent on reaching even deeper into our pockets and mopping up whatever money it can to sustain itself as it seeks re-election in 2016.

Hollywood star Shia LaBeouf has been released after being taken out of a New York City theatre for allegedly being disorderly and yelling obscenities.

Irish Water has said it will not repair plumbing on private properties where there are excessive lead levels in the water from old piping.

Flushing money down the toilet? Kya deLongchamps shows us some clever meter beaters to drain those imminent water bills.

The Government could net a further €4m in interest from over 250,000 properties which have not paid the 2012 household charge.

Residents who negotiated the removal of water meters from their estate have hailed a small victory in their battle with Irish Water but warned the war is far from over.

I am in despair. The citizen will be obliged to pay for another pointless ‘quango’ of expensive consultants and a colossal, futile construction scheme.

A Dublin man has been served with a book of evidence and sent forward for trial on multiple counts of child sex abuse and exploitation.

New charges, including false imprisonment and possession of firearms, have been filed against seven men accused of “terrorising” a family during an aggravated burglary last year.