The electronic equivalent of an identification card will allow the world’s 4.4bn internet users to navigate it more easily and could become key to inclusive growth, say Anu Madgavkar and Olivia White

People are urged to bring their polling card and photographic IDs with them to polling stations today if they want to be guaranteed the chance to vote in the historic Eighth Amendment referendum.

A Cork bar has defended its door policies after it received a torrent of criticism after it asked a man with Down syndrome to provide age identification, even though he was with his parents, who emphasised that he is 21.

The Home Office has apologised and paid £2,000 to a woman who claimed she had been racially discriminated against by an airport immigration officer, the Northern Ireland Equality Commission has said.

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A consumer group has called on the newest entrant to the mobile phone market to make customer care its main priority.

Ireland’s newest entrant to the mobile phone market is promising cheaper bills, flexible plans and more transparency over your payments than any of its rivals.