Junior Social Protection Minister Kevin Humphreys has today insisted that the backlog of applications for the back-to-school allowance will be cleared.

The Government is defending its new plans for a microloans system after opposition parties attacked the timing of the plan.

A government minister says the tax system is unfair because county councillors pay PRSI but don't get any benefits.

Communities living next to rivers are on high alert amid warnings that the country’s major waterways could burst their banks today or over the weekend with the forecast of heavy rain.