Independent candidate for Wexford Verona Murphy has said that the Irish government should be insisting that if the French port of Cherbourg is to have a shipping route with Rosslare than security will have to be improved.

"Lyric already has close ties with practitioners in UL as part of the huge cultural contribution the station makes to Limerick and the Mid-West.”

Catalonia’s separatist leaders have unilaterally breached the constitutional order of Spain, says the country’s prime minister Pedro Sánchez, but there is room for dialogue

Philip Gillivan said while he accepts the drugs issue is complex and requires a multi-agency response, something must be done to clean up the city centre.

Limerick IT and Athlone IT are forming a consortium to develop a new Technological University.

The number of patients waiting to see a hospital consultant has reached a new record high of almost 570,000.

The respected Muslim lecturer who received a sinister voicemail calling for his execution says he takes huge encouragement from all the messages of support which include a phone call from Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan and a strong statement from the President of UCC.

The President of University College Cork (UCC) says the university stands against “ignorant shameful hate” after a respected Muslim lecturer received a sinister voicemail calling for his execution.

Hundreds of protestors marched through the streets of Cork city today to protest the proposed closure of the Cork Mail Centre in Little Island.

There has been a 50% rise in the number of students receiving counselling for mental health problems in the past decade.

Barnardos will be asked to drop Danone as sponsor of its 'Big Toddle' by a group of academics and child experts, who claim the involvement of a breast-milk substitute manufacturer breaches the WHO Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes.

It would be mendacious to suggest that excitement and joy is mounting across Ireland in anticipation of a possible visit in June by the president of the United States.

Drogheda needs at least 25 more gardaí to combat the escalating gang feud says local Fine Gael TD Fergus O’Dowd.

A number of typo-ridden billboards have been erected in South Africa ahead of an upcoming election, resulting in unexpected international attention for a suburb in the southside of Cork city.

More than a third (37%) left to move to Britain to practise medicine, while almost one in five (19%) went to Australia and more than a quarter (27%) to another jurisdiction, according to those who gave a reason.

A recent report by Denise Braily, the President of Australian BFCSA (Banking & Finance Consumers Support Association), to a Royal Commission on banking provided a worrying picture of banking in Australia.

The president of Algeria says he is creating a new government and a special body to draft a new constitution to respond to mass protests.

Cork Chamber president Bill O’Connell used his address at the organisation’s annual Dublin dinner to outline a vision of how he sees Cork in 2030 if the “once in a lifetime opportunity is grasped” for the city.

Dom O’Rourke, President of the Irish Boxing Association, has hailed the contribution of Ireland’s clubs and coaches to what has been a remarkable haul of medals in international competition in 2018.

A culture of sexism and misogyny in Irish politics in decades past is laid bare in a book about the role of female politicians.

Calls are growing for additional funding to be given to Irish ports to improve connectivity to continental Europe following Brexit.

Park the St Patrick’s St car ban and give us back our city.

As a record 656 patients waited for a hospital bed yesterday, nurses warned that the health service could buckle under pressure from the flu epidemic.

A doctors’ group has called for the health budget to be overhauled to avoid a further deterioration of public health services.

A judge has made orders permitting the detention in hospital and tube feeding of a teenage girl with the most severe form of anorexia nervosa, writes Ann O'Loughlin.

Supposedly sexually harassing women in the work place and going on to win an Academy Award for best actor are perfect examples of rape culture, says Louise O’Neill.

The Government plans to introduce computer science, including coding, as a Leaving Cert subject.

We've already had riots and protests in response to Donald Trump's election as the President of the United States.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Update 1pm: The Sports Minister Shane Ross is due to return to Ireland this evening following the arrest of Pat Hickey in Rio yesterday.

Enda Kenny’s negotiating position in the Brexit talks has been strengthened after French president François Hollande said Ireland was in a “special situation” following Britain’s decision to leave the EU.

One in 10 people admit to putting rubbish in their neighbours bin - to avoid paying charges.

Almost 50,000 patients each year are walking out of our emergency departments due to frustrations over long waiting times.

Plans for a minimum alcohol price have suffered a setback after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled similar plans in Scotland would breach EU law if less restrictive tax measures could be introduced.

NEWLY elected Irish Amateur Boxing Association (IABA) President Pat Ryan believes that Ireland should aim for the top of the tree in world boxing.

US President Barack Obama has met David Attenborough at the White House to ask for advice on protecting the future of the planet.

The Grangegorman Development Agency (GDA) has submitted planning applications to Dublin City Council for two major academic buildings for DIT as the next stage of the Grangegorman campus development.

It’s less than 500 days to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, but if the city learned lessons from the 2014 World Cup experience, it’s the speculators who are profiting, not the citizens.

As April Fools jokes go, this one from RTE Today was very good.

This is a bit uncomfortable!

LET’S raise a glass to the new Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 which is essentially designed to protect us from ourselves when it comes to our love affair with booze, writes Alison O’Connor.

Please allow me to acknowledge the tremendous achievement, both on and off the field, by Cork City FC.