Childcare operators have said they are not prepared for new fire safety regulations and inspections at creches, but the Minister for Children Katherine Zappone has said they were aware of them before now.

Homeowners in a complex where fire safety deficiencies have been discovered will have to pay up to €50,000 per home for remedial work, the Irish Examiner has learned.

Last week, maybe 20, certainly 10, years too late, the all-party Committee on Climate Action published a report.

SIPTU says county councils should have improved fire safety standards after the Grenfell Tower fire in London.

The owners of apartments in Kilmainham in Dublin are facing bills of €26,000 each to repair fire safety issues.

The Government says it takes fire safety very seriously. Reports in recent years have been lacking, however, with tragedies still a real possibility, writes Michael Clifford

A fire on the scale of the Grenfell Tower blaze in London is not likely here, a task force has found.

The Government has announced it will consult on banning flammable cladding just hours after a furious backlash when a review into the Grenfell Tower inferno failed to recommend such a move.

The staff firefighter representative on the taskforce set up to examine fire safety in high-rise buildings has rejected the draft report of the body, pointing out that it does not address basic fire safety issues.

Management at the National Paediatric Hospital has rejected criticism over its fire safety measures after reports that it sought a derogation from some conditions.

The Department of Education has been accused of a cover-up over fire safety failings at five schools.

60 schools around the country are to be audited for fire safety standards after five recently built schools were found to be in breach of regulations.

More than half of all primary schools seeking state help to address serious fire safety concerns in the past three years had their requests rejected by the Department of Education.

There are calls for all buildings constructed in the past 10 years to undergo a fire safety audit.

Missing smoke seals, gaps around fire doors and cluttered escape routes were just some of the fire safety breaches found in five schools in Dublin, Wicklow, and Mullingar, writes Amy Ryan

Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy has said home-owners who foot the bill to make their homes fire safe could get tax breaks.

Representatives for fire crews believe safety defects are widespread in buildings across the country.

The HSE has been warned that it could face legal proceedings if UHL continues to breach its own fire safety risk assessment threshold of having more than 44 patients in its ED at any on time.

Scary.