The Irish Council for Social Housing has said its members helped deliver four in 10 new social homes last year.

Housing associations provided one-third of the total amount of long-term social housing last year, amid calls for more government help in providing increased housing in future.

The Department of Justice has differed with reported comments from the minister for education that it will have to foot the bill for the Garda Labour Court deal.

The Irish Hospital Consultants Associations annual conference is taking place today in Limerick.

The death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor have been commuted to life in prison, a top Libyan official said tonight.