The body representing rank-and-file gardaí has confirmed it is not inviting Justice Minister Alan Shatter to its annual conference at the end of April.

A prominent publican who was badly beaten after he refused to serve a Traveller has described the issue of equality as “a no-win situation” for pub owners.

The values of modern Ireland are to be highlighted in a new play staged by one of the country’s most successful independent production companies.

A MOTHER, who was going to jail, sent her two-year-old son to Wales with strangers rather than place him in care.