Ireland will not need a second bailout, Germany’s finance minister Wolfgang Schauble has declared.

A senior Leinster House official, Kieran Coughlan, is recommending that an independent body takes over control of setting political allowances.

Senior Government ministers have described Ireland’s economic growth for last year as solid despite unacceptably high unemployment.

Young Irish professionals who want to further their careers in Asia are being offered the chance courtesy of a new scheme launched today.

The Minister for Justice and Law Reform Dermot Ahern has today announced government approval for the procurement of the first two prison blocks at the prison campus at Thornton.

JUSTICE, Equality and Law Reform minister of state Frank Fahey recently launched an awareness campaign on domestic violence which deals only with violence against women.

A commercial division of the High Court is to be created to improve the speed and efficiency of commercial litigation.

Justice, Equality and Law Reform Minister Willie O’ Dea is appealing to both sides of a dispute with publicans and travellers in Mayo to remain calm and refrain from breaking the law until he has arranged talks to settle the dispute.