Newbridge Credit Union is to be bailed out at a cost of nearly €54m.

Living conditions in one of the country’s most disadvantaged flat complexes are so bad that children are absent from school for more than 20 days a year due to health problems, a report revealed yesterday.

Dubliners living in local authority housing on the city's southside are today publishing a report on how they believe their human rights are being violated by their living conditions.

WE write in the aftermath of a death foretold, the unnecessary death of a young Kilkenny mother from cancer.