No amount of alcohol at any stage of pregnancy is safe for your baby, a HSE campaign will warn today

Charlie Flanagan and David Stanton have announced the publication of the Government's gender pay gap legislation.

Progress in attracting overseas farm workers has been reported by FRS (Farm Relief Services).

Fine Gael and Sinn Féin were accused of acting in “coalition” yesterday after they joined forces to stop a Fianna Fáil change to the Judicial Appointments Bill.

Only around half of the 138 garda stations closed during the recession were considered to be in a position to be reopened in a special report to be presented to the Government.

Pensioners and lone parents look set to receive increases in State payments, but not all social welfare recipients will benefit from the autumn budget.

The Department of Education looks set to become embroiled in a political row over a Government policy that might allow a single institute of technology become a technological university.

Further exciting times lie ahead as apprenticeships are being expanded into a range of new areas, writes Michael Moriarty.

The Independent Alliance are demanding more free votes within Government if Leo Varadkar is to secure their votes to become Taoiseach next Tuesday, write Daniel McConnell and Elaine Loughlin of the Irish Examiner.

The Hill Farming Forum in Connemara organised by the IFA last week was an opportunity to examine how best to unlock the potential of farming on our uplands.

Gardaí are investigating whether the latest massive drug seizure is connected to the Hutch criminal grouping.

Transport Minister Shane Ross has been left “outraged” and “deeply uneasy” about continuing in Government following a blazing row with Taoiseach Enda Kenny at Cabinet.

An assistance dogs programme specifically for children with autism reached its full capacity within one hour of Irish Guide Dogs reopening the service to new applicants for the first time since 2013.

Focus Ireland has urged the Government to implement legislation to protect vulnerable homeowners and tenants from vulture funds, warning that thousands of people could be at risk of being removed from their homes.

Single-practice GPs are struggling to find locums, so it is difficult for them take summer holidays.

Further focus on the teaching of literacy and closer links between schools and communities will feature in new Government efforts to tackle educational disadvantage.

Farm leaders have called on Social Protection Minister Leo Varadkar to make changes in the Farm Assist scheme to protect low income families.

Education groups are being invited to respond to issues around schools and skills development in the Programme for Government.

Enda Kenny has said opposition attempts to embarrass the Government by passing Dáil bills could be blocked under new reforms set to be introduced next week.

The proportion of strokes suffered by people of working age has soared by more than 25% in just seven years.

The public and local groups who want to help refugees coming to Ireland will be able to register from next Monday offers of accommodation, and other goods and services, on a dedicated online database created by the Irish Red Cross.

Cork University Hospital is the first academic healthcare organisation in the world to reach international Green Flag status for efforts to reduce its environmental impact.

Plans to cut the

“We believe that in recent years an over-powerful executive has turned the Dáil into an observer of the political process rather than a central player and that this must be changed” — Programme for Government, 2011.

Lucrative golden handshakes for retiring ministers will be axed under proposals to be signed off on by the Cabinet in September.

An integration project says their programme for released inmates costs 70 times less than keeping them detained in prisons.

Doctors have warned that the HSE’s failure to fund a follow-up care plan for women treated for breast cancer will mean patients bearing the costs.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has vowed to face down the challenges facing Labour after its humiliating defeat in the Meath East by-election.

Some of the worst-off social housing tenants will have to pay shortfalls of up to quarter of their rent if fresh welfare proposals are introduced, the Federation of Northern Ireland Housing Associations warned.

This weekend will mark the 75th anniversary of the referendum ratifying the Irish Constitution.

THE man with the microphone said that he used to call one street in his home town the Bermuda Triangle.

The European Union has banned oil imports from Syria in a move that will cost the embattled regime millions of euro a day as it uses deadly force to try to crush a five-month-old uprising.

FARMERS will gain invaluable insights into optimum farming methods for output expansion with the roll-out of the findings of the four-year Agricultural Catchments Programme.

THE bank holiday break should have given ministers opportunity to consider medium-term viability prospects rather than short term hyperactivity.

THE state’s educational psychologist service for school-going children is “grossly under-funded” and its ratio of psychologists to pupils is much higher than the European average, with 5,000 pupils to each psychologist, instead of 3,000 to one.

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny was accused of downgrading the centrepiece legislation of his first 100 days in power by rebranding it from a jobs “budget” to just a jobs initiative.

AFFORESTATION targets have been more than doubled in the new Programme for Government.

THE former head of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board has backed the new Government’s plans to re-examine whether the facility should be built at the Mater site.

WATER charges will be strongly resisted with a “can’t pay, won’t pay” campaign lead by the five United Left Alliance (ULA) TDs similar to the fights against bin charges in the 1990s.