A dramatic escalation of the coronavirus crisis has seen 40 new cases confirmed and a nationwide closure of every pub and nightclub, putting 50,000 jobs in jeopardy.

A paper by the Department of Education is due to be published on the issue shortly.

The fund for assisting students is worth €14m a year, and aims to help people who have financial difficulties while in college.

New fire regulations for open-plan living are, like so much of the State’s planning process,developer-led, but is there a cost to safety standards? asks Michael Clifford.

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald insists 'the war is over' despite Garda Commissioner Drew Harris’s comments linking the party to the Provisional Army Council.

The National Ambulance Service (NAS) has said that everyone should know their Eircode.

Around 50 people, calling themselves 'House the Irish First' have been protesting at the site on Ladyswell Road in Mulhuddart since mid January

Health was a major factor in how people voted in the general election, according to an exit poll.

Government formation after the general election looks set to be thrown into chaos as an exit poll tonight predicted that the three big parties are tied.

The Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that it is appropriate that Sinn Féin Northern Minister for Finance Conor Murphy make an apology to the Quinn family for suggesting that their son Paul, believed to have been murdered by the Provisional IRA, had been involved in criminality.

Labour Party TD Alan Kelly, has demanded that Minister Eoghan Murphy take immediate decisive action on whether the election will take place in Tipperary this weekend.

One of the mantras — more a well-considered muddying of the waters — of the Troubles, and of the years that immediately followed those decades of carnage, was that “there can be no hierarchy of victims”.

Extending free State childcare to two-year-olds with an increase to 33 hours of such care per week at a cost of €495m forms the crux of the party’s childcare policy, launched today.

Fianna Fáil has said that it remains the only credible alternative to Fine Gael as a governing party despite last night’s bombshell poll which showed Sinn Féin is now the most popular party in the country.

The Sinn Féin leader says the party won't be entering into a confidence and supply agreement with either Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil.

The returning officer for Tipperary has said that it might be the end of February before people in the county go to the polls.

A new opinion poll as listed Mary Lou McDonald as the "most effective communicator" among party leaders during the election campaign to date.

A number of senior Fianna Fáil TDs have insisted that their party will not go into coalition with Sinn Féin following next Saturday’s election despite an ever-growing rumbling from the party’s base that such an eventuality should be on the table.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has launched a blistering attack on Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin, saying his criticism of EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan was “bad-tempered” and “ill-judged”.

The Constitution is taking a battering in this election campaign. They’re coming for it from all angles.

We take a sideways look at the election.

The Government does not know what the full cost of the M20 will be.

Fine Gael’s approach to the 2020 election campaign has been dismissed as “project fear” by the party’s lead opponents, who have described it as “the sign of a party becoming increasingly desperate”.