The research by the ESRI comes less than a month after another body of work found children who own a phone at the age of nine performed less well in tests - in both reading and maths - by the time they reach 13, prompting fresh calls for more detailed research by policymakers.

Ireland's first sustainable mobile phone is available to buy from today.

The Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland (ASAI) has received 20 complaints in 18 months from the public relating to phone and broadband providers advertising products as "unlimited" when they actually included caps.

The Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland (ASAI) is to undertake a major review of the term 'unlimited' in mobile data plans.

Samsung is in hot water with an Australian regulator over adverts for its Galaxy phones.

A driver in Scotland has been caught on camera crashing into the back of a car moments after he argued with a cyclist about how he could drive safely while using his mobile phone.

Noel Campion finds the Unihertz Atom is such a little gem that he sets aside his big love for big screens.

The assertion yesterday by Charlie Flanagan, the minister for justice and equality, that he would be “favourable to the idea that it could be made illegal to photograph a garda on duty” is so wrong on so many levels that he must clarify the statement.

Latest: The "intermittent issues" mobile phone provider Eir have been experiencing have now been resolved.

A mother has spoken of her daughter’s experience at an Irish-language summer course at Coláiste na Rinne in the Waterford Gaeltacht.

The cost of phone calls within the European Union could be capped at 19 cent a minute.

The Mobile Phone and Broadband Taskforce is to undertake 34 steps this year to improve services.

The directors of former Irish smartphone content supplier Zamano have tentatively agreed to a reverse takeover of the business.

A Swiss mobile phone operator has said its data systems were breached late last year, compromising the contact details of about 800,000 customers.

Mobile devices and video games may soon be powered by residue from forests, science researchers at the University of Limerick have discovered.

It is exactly 25 years since the first text message was received on a mobile phone.

The extra hour in bed was appreciated on Sunday morning but it also meant the start of the long winter nights, writes Gráinne McGuinness

Mobile phone customers who do not change their tariff after their contract ends may be paying subsidies for a handset they have already paid for, a consumer group warns.

Vodafone has reported a 1.1% year-on-year increase in its Irish revenues for the first quarter of its current financial year, with customer numbers, here, rising by nearly 7%.

Consumers have been warned of the hidden charges that remain as part of the EU’s new “roam like at home” mobile roaming rules.

The tribunal investigating an alleged smear campaign against Garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe has encountered a setback.

There is just under one month to go to the abolition of EU mobile phone roaming charges.

Traffic division gardaí in Kerry were specifically watching for mobile phone use by all drivers, including bus drivers, in Killarney during the summer, a court has been told.

I am switching mobile phone providers. This morning, on day three of trying to activate a new phone sim card, I’m sitting at the kitchen table, in front of my laptop.

A man who was caught with thousands of images of child abuse on his mobile phone and laptop has been jailed for three and a half years.

Drugs, phones, alcohol and weapons were all seized in jail cells last year according to the Irish Prison Service.

A targeted mobile phone operation is being conducted by An Garda Síochaná over the coming days.

Magic tricks can leave you astonished and amazed and particularly ones by Dynamo tend to be particularly spectacular.

A man has been found with 38 mobile phones stuffed down his trousers at a Libertines concert in the UK.

What a memory!

A ban on roaming charges for using mobile phones abroad in the EU will take effect from June 2017.

A Labour TD wants the country’s mobile operators hauled before an Oireachtas committee to answer questions about their coverage.

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

Two prisoners have filmed a rap video from behind bars in England.

The chair of the Road Safety Authority has said she believes the use of mobile phones while driving is now “bordering on addiction”.

Mobile roaming charges are to be scrapped across the European Union from June 2017.

Look where you’re going!

In this week’s Small Business column Kehlan Kirwan looks at why it pays to put down your mobile devices when you get the chance.

Scientists believe they have invented a battery that could fully charge a smartphone in just one minute.

Paul Gascoigne told the High Court he “would like to trade my mobile phone in for a coffin because these guys have ruined my life. I have no life.”