With just 56% of women in Ireland breastfeeding, advocates want to raise awareness about unethical marketing practices in the infant feeding industry.

Songwriter Glen Hansard has accused the Government of behaving like Donald Trump in its handling of the homeless crisis.

More than 6,000 children will be homeless by 2020 unless there is a radical intervention.

A home repossession “guillotine is on the way down”, dwarfing the current homeless crisis and creating a huge catastrophe.

A man who falsely imprisoned, tied up and raped a woman in a hotel meeting room during a Dublin gaming convention has been jailed for 12 years.

Aoife Hearne is well-known to TV viewers as a dietitian on RTÉ’s popular Operation Transformation series. The Waterford native has also worked with the Tipperary senior hurlers since 2009, providing nutritional advice to Premier County players. 

The top 10% of Irish society hold more than half of the country’s wealth, while the bottom 50% have just 4.95% of it.

The Army’s bomb disposal unit dealt with a suspect device in Waterford City yesterday, which led to the evacuation of 40 homes.

Irish consumers are expected to buy 20,000 tonnes of the Queens variety of potatoes over the coming months, Bord Bia predicts.

Stradbally 0-8 Ballinacourty 0-6 

A new labour unit at University Hospital Waterford (UHW) will not be used for maternity needs for at least another three months because equipment has not been bought for it and staff have yet to be hired.

British Labour leader’s anti-austerity policies of a living wage and high taxation of the rich would be popular here, says Tom O’Connor. Would you vote for him? Take our poll.

Dr Rory Hearnes’ article (Irish Examiner July 4) on the stark and brutal effects of Irish ‘austerity’ should be essential reading for all concerned Irish citizens.

Well over half of those involved in the anti-water charge movement had never before protested.

St. Peter’s College (Wexford) 1-16 Castlecomer CS (Kilkenny) 0-6: Leinster Post Primary Hurling: St. Peter’s College eased to a 13 points win over Castlecomer Community School in this one-sided Leinster Post Primary SAHC quarter-final at the Netwatch Carlow Centre of Excellence on Saturday.

Resolving our homes crisis

WORLD tennis number one Novak Djokovic is a man who knows a lot about discipline.

Workers at a popular pub in Waterford are staging a sit-in after three bars under the same ownership closed their doors with immediate effect on Monday night.

Operation Transformation opened last night with the dreaded weigh-in.

Four years ago he was on the dole but yesterday his work was seen around the world, presented by the Taoiseach to President Obama as part of the St Patrick’s festivities.

While Stradbally were ecstatically celebrating a one-point Waterford SFC replay victory over The Nire last Saturday night, two of their longest serving players spent the night in the hospital and will miss next Sunday’s Munster meeting with Cork champions Castlehaven.

Stradbally 2-02 Nire 0-08

A horrific, drunken crash left Shane Mullins badly injured. Now he helps teens to fight their demons.John Hearne reports

AN internet campaign is under way to demand the GAA drop its ticket prices amid grumbling from fans over the high price of attending inter-county matches.

Campaigners opposed to the closure of a top Dublin cancer hospital will today take their protest onto the streets of the capital.

ALL TDs and senators are to be offered data encryption technology for their laptop computers after a spate of scares both here and in Britain over the safety of sensitive information.

HUNDREDS of residents opposed to plans for a waste incinerator at Poolbeg are expected to show up at an oral hearing into the controversial project today.

Activists against the closure of Ireland’s main radiotherapy treatment centre for cancer sufferers will step up their campaign today.

An anti-corruption rally outside the Dáil today called for crooked politicians to be jailed just hours before Taoiseach Bertie Ahern delivers the biggest speech of his political career.

AS president of Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU), I feel I must respond to the letter concerning our staff redundancies from Rory Hearne as it is a gross misinterpretation of the facts and demonstrates a lack of understanding of the real issues affecting students (Irish Examiner letters, August 21).

Dozens of people turned out for a free multicultural picnic in Dublin today which was organised to promote understanding between Irish people and migrants.

Planning permission was sought today for an incinerator on Dublin’s Poolbeg Peninsula designed to provide electricity for 50,000 homes and heat 60,000 houses.

The United Nations Human Rights Commission has offered to act as an intermediary to resolve the hunger strike 40 Afghans embarked on in a Dublin cathedral over the state’s refusal to grant them asylum, it emerged tonight.

Nemo Rangers 0-12 Macroom 0-6

A CO Limerick parish priest told a shocked congregation that a person had used a prayer room in the church as a toilet.

Protesters blasted the use of US and British military warplanes at a massive air show in Galway today.

Hundreds of students and school pupils marched through Dublin city centre today against Government plans to introduce ASBOs.

Louise Hogan

Jim Morahan

Angry students handed thousands of signatures to the Government today in a bid to force ministers to tackle funding problems at the State’s third-level colleges.

INADEQUATE grants are forcing students to drop out of college courses despite Government claims that third-level education is a priority, students’ leaders said yesterday.