It is still very early days in the Covid-19 outbreak from an Irish perspective, though it may not feel like it.

The images last year of the small boy eating a plate of carbonara off a cardboard sheet laid on the pavement sparked public outrage and shone the spotlight once again on the homeless crisis. Noel Baker meets the boy and his mother to see how their lives have fared since and spends the night with the homeless freephone service in Dublin.

Margaret Walsh from Kerry was attending the funeral of a first cousin in Dublin when she fell in to the grave and allegedly hurt her back, arm, hip and neck.

Ruth Coppinger, the former Solidarity TD who campaigned to abolish the Seanad, is now seeking to be elected there.

The future of a €36m R&D campus planned for a site near Dublin Airport is uncertain after An Bord Pleanála refused planning permission for the project.

Fine Gael TD Alan Farrell says two properties on the same street are empty- one for more than a year.

A weather advisory is in place for Wexford, Cork and Waterford as heavy rain hits Munster and Leinster this morning.

A Fianna Fáil councillor has expressed shock at being the subject of a complaint to the Workplace Relations Commission over an alleged incident with an anti-abortion campaigner at a pipe band contest in Dublin last year.

The public is facing worse services and higher rates as seven local authorities are set to lose €18.4 million in their funding, The Dáil has heard.

The race to fill the seat vacated by Independents4Change TD Clare Daly in Dublin-Fingal on Friday, November 29 is shaping up to be a two-horse race.

Sterling inched down from a six-month high against the euro and was a touch softer against the dollar, as a boost from the Brexit Party’s decision not to contest previously Conservative-held seats in Britain’s upcoming election faded.

Irish Water announced that the boil water notice " for customers supplied by Leixlip Water Treatment Plant" has been lifted "with immediate effect".

The Water Forum has said there is an over reliance on the Liffey to supply Dublin with drinking water.

“There’s more scrutiny. We’re testing more rigorously and picking up problems...It’s not that water quality is deteriorating,”

More than 600,000 people in Dublin, Kildare and Meath are affected by the boil water notice.

Irish Water expects the notice to be in place for a number of days after heavy rain affected water quality at the Leixlip Treatment Plant.

Several alarms at the Leixlip Water plant “were not responded to”, leading to the country's largest-ever boil water notice last month, TDs will be told tomorrow.

Irish Water and Fingal County Council have been criticised by a report into last week's 'boil water' notice.

Local authorities have told the Minister for Housing that they will need more than €8 million to enforce new laws on short-term lettings.

Since early this morning, Fingal county council flushed the network in areas to remove remaining risks from the water network.

The Irish Planning Institute (IPI) — the all-island body for professional planners engaged in physical, spatial and environmental planning in Ireland — has announced the election of four new members as Fellows at the institute’s annual Autumn Planning Conference.

McGarrell Reilly has launched plans for the new €75m Lusk Village Quarter in Lusk in Co Dublin, unveiling details for the delivery of exciting new amenities for the local community.

According to the proposals, the Lakeside Memorial Park will be more a high-quality park than a traditional graveyard where people can remember and celebrate the lives of loved ones who have died.

Residents in north county Dublin are being warned to be on the lookout for a stag on the loose.

Residents in Skerries in North County Dublin are appealing Fingal County Council's decision to allow a new fast food drive-thru to be built in Skerries.

Two HSE public health doctors have written to An Bord Pleanála calling on it to refuse planning permission for a drive-thru fast food restaurant in Skerries in north Dublin

Fingal County Council is being criticised for using mechanical diggers to clear up beaches in the area.

Individuals could be blocked from objecting to Traveller community housing being built in their areas unless complaints meet strict new rules under Government plans.

Fota Arboretum and Garinish Island are among the dozens of Irish gardens and parks that have been recognised with International Green Flags.

The phrase ‘Stand up to Bullies’ was written on the wall of a workplace canteen where a 43-year-old man took his own life.

Barrister Damien Keaney told Judge Jacqueline Linnane today that he was in the High Court two months ago when Niall Kelly, whom he recognised, had turned up in the wig.

New HSE boss Paul Reid wants to see a “more devolved” health system.

Conor Kane has been appointed as South East correspondent with RTÉ News.

Clare Daly believes that the EU is a neo-liberal body protecting big business — her bid for Europe intends to change all that. Juno McEnroe follows her on the campaign trail in Inchicore.

On Friday week, people all over Ireland will vote to elect 949 councillors. On May 31, my five-year term as a councillor will officially end, writes Justin Sinnott.

The Daa expects to retain control of Cork Airport and plans to invest €40m in its development over the next four-to-five years.

Helping bees and other pollinators is easy and will make your garden more beautiful, says Peter Dowdall

There is a deep irony in the fact that, as we become ever more fascinated by food, by cookery, and as we reach deeper understandings of the impact diet has on life-long health, basic cookery skills are not as universal as they once were.

The Irish Heart Foundation (IHF) has stalled contentious plans for a drive thru fast food restaurant in Skerries in north Dublin.

The current chief executive of Fingal County Council takes over following the departure of Tony O'Brien last year.