The European Central Bank faces criticism over its denigration of employment and social rights during the ongoing austerity drive, says Europe Correspondent Ann Cahill

Cutting the period of bankruptcy back to a single year looks on the cards after Labour united around the move.

As senior Labour ministers took to the airwaves on Saturday to defend their party’s record and leader, conversations started taking place between its young turks on what to do about Eamon Gilmore.

Galway West TD EamonÓ Cuív has been re-instated to the Fianna Fáil frontbench following his resignation last March over his stance on the fiscal compact referendum.

THE Government should consider adding lithium salts to tap water in an effort to lower depression rates, a consultant psychiatrist has suggested.

NAMA opted to oppose the examinership of the Whelan Group after “evidence emerged of substantial irregularities” on the part of the group’s companies, the chairman of the agency has stated.

TIMID, drab, stale and pedestrian – just some of the words being used to describe Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s much anticipated Cabinet reshuffle.

THE controversial €10 airport tax should be scrapped as a matter of urgency following the announcement of the withdrawal of certain flights from Shannon Airport, the Dáil heard yesterday.

MAVERICK mid-west Fianna Fáil backbenchers who previously criticised the Government’s failure to intervene in the Shannon controversy were absent for yesterday’s Dáil debate.

The 'prophets of doom' who predicted the closure of Shannon Airport with the major change of

A national ’hygiene tzar’ is needed to clean up hospitals and stop patients picking up infections like MRSA, an Oireachtas Committee heard today.

Action groups opposed to the downgrading of local hospital services have called for the controversial Hanley Report to be scrapped by the Government, it emerged today.

THE future of the Shannon stopover was cast into doubt last night after a Government think-tank recommended urgent renegotiation of the US-Ireland landing deal.