Pay for four directors at stock market-listed Leinster house builder Cairn Homes increased to €2.2m last year from just over €2m in 2016, its annual report shows.

It sounds like a contradiction in terms, but a woman whose whole life is song has just received an Unsung Hero Award.

RTÉ broadcaster Brenda Donohue today presented the 2014 Hidden Hearing Heroes Awards honouring those who made a significant, and often unheralded, contribution to society.

INCREASING numbers of deaf children are being denied proper schooling, while the Department of Education withholds a report commissioned to ease their plight.

DEAF people are being frustrated by the lack of subtitling on Irish television channels.