Families of the Stardust fire victims have renewed their call for a fresh inquiry as independent TDs prepare to bring a motion before the Dáil backing their campaign.

2,700 cyclists attended hospital with injuries received in road accidents in Ireland in 2015 and 2016. That’s nearly four a day, according to figures released by the HSE.

The same cladding used in the multi-fatality Grenfell tower block in London was installed at County Hall, the headquarters of Cork County Council, writes Sean O’Riordan.

The same cladding used in the multi-fatality Grenfell tower block in London was installed at County Hall, the headquarters of Cork County Council.

There were 6,309 children in care in Ireland at the end of February this year, with 5,822 of these being in foster care, it has been revealed.

A fresh stand-off has erupted between Fine Gael and the Independent Alliance over whether a fresh inquiry into the 1981 Stardust tragedy should be established.

Dublin residents living along the route of a planned €20m aviation-fuel pipeline to Dublin Airport have raised safety concerns.

Some men love watches as much as cars. So with Father’s Day this Sunday, Richard Fitzpatrick looks at some coveted wrist candy

Three out of four people summonsed to court in the first seven months of this year for failing to pay a fixed-charge penalty notice escaped a conviction.

Just over one in four drivers brought to court for mobile phone breaches are being convicted, figures show.

The Government has confirmed that a 10c hike in the price of alcohol in the next budget would net the State more than €110m if the public was to maintain current consumption levels.

Rebel TDs who quit Labour in disgust at its record in Government insist a new leader will not be able to "woo" them back into the party fold.

Social Protection Minister Joan Burton has admitted that appeals against welfare decisions have increased "dramatically" as opposition TDs blamed government cuts for the rise.

Fewer than one in four of the drivers summonsed to court last year for failing to pay a fixed-fine penalty notice were convicted, figures from the Department of Justice show.

The Courts Service was forced to strike out 60,000 driving cases in the space of two years without the offender even reaching the courtroom because gardaí failed to serve the summons on the offender.

A YOUNG Cork woman with a rare disease who is receiving treatment in the UK was told by her doctor that a drug administered to her during a diagnostic test in Ireland could have caused a stroke.

A financial transaction tax and a tax on the wealthy would raise around €600m as part of an alternative budget proposed by independent TDs.

Leading rebel Labour TDs have launched a stinging attack on Bono and his U2 bandmates, calling on them to give Irish tax authorities some “New Year’s Pay” during this unprecedented economic crisis by bringing their tax affairs back to Ireland and helping to rebuild the country which all four band members reside in.

Daylight robbery topped the bill in the Dáil yesterday as TDs discussed the prospect of the country coming out of darkness and shedding a little more light on daily life.

Colm Keaveney has quit as chairman and member of the Labour Party.

Eamon Gilmore has defended his leadership of the Labour Party amid questions raised about his tenure by frustrated party members.

A rocked Labour has rounded on its rebel chairman, with senior party members calling for his resignation.

The country’s prison for juveniles is in the spotlight again after figures reveal a rampant trade in mobile phones in the jail.

The HSE has warned hospital consultants they risk being exposed to pay cuts if they do not attend a Labour Court hearing on Thursday.

Labour rebels claim to have support in the parliamentary party for their calls for a wealth tax in the budget.

Labour rebels claim to have support in the parliamentary party for their calls for a wealth tax in the budget.

He says he doesn’t mean it in a disrespectful way, but three of the four ex-Labour TDs now in exile on the opposition benches may not like John Lyons’ comments very much.

Foreign drivers have racked up almost 90,000 penalty points in the past three years, but they have got off scot-free because of loopholes in our laws.

The Government is losing another backbencher after the most newly elected TD Patrick Nulty refused to back the Budget.

TÁNAISTE Eamon Gilmore has claimed he does not expect to lose any more TDs following next week’s budget even as another Labour backbencher fired a shot across the party’s bows.

Labour’s newest TD has warned the party leadership to take the rebellion of backbench colleague Tommy Broughan very seriously.

THE Government has lost a third TD after Labour’s Tommy Broughan voted against a coalition proposal to extend the bank guarantee scheme.

Tommy Broughan has been a thorn in the leadership’s side for some time and few in Labour will lament his loss, writes Political Editor, Paul O’Brien

A rebel Labour backbencher has become the third Government TD kicked out of the coalition after he refused to support the bank guarantee and called on the party to return to opposition.

THE Finance Minister has been accused by a Labour TD of driving troubled homeowners like “galley slaves” through the mortgage crisis.

LABOUR TDs have defended Tommy Broughan’s right to his opinions after he compared Taoiseach Enda Kenny to the captain of the Titanic steering toward the iceberg of “national bankruptcy and ruin”.

The Government has today ruled out widespread debt forgiveness for struggling borrowers in the face of a High Court warning that banks are hounding their own customers to suicide.

A Government backbencher has compared the Taoiseach to the captain of the Titantic, accusing Enda Kenny of steering the ship towards the iceberg of ruin.

THE sell-off of the state airports at Dublin, Cork and Shannon is expected to be one of the more controversial recommendations contained in a new report due to be presented to the Government later this week.

AS the two men approached each other by the bandstand in a near deserted park at twilight, the scene was reminiscent of an old spy movie.

Labour party delegates have backed a proposal to enter government with Fine Gael, and to back the Programme for Government hammered out this week.

Labour's Tommy Broughan has been elected in Dublin North-East.