Two of the Sinn Féin leaders children have been put into precautionary quarantine along with the rest of their school due to a person contracting coronavirus.

An employee in its Dublin office has reported flu-like symptoms - but it's not a confirmed case of Covid-19.

The Irish Examiner has learned that the Taoiseach will chair the new sub-committee.

A secondary school has been closed for 14 days on foot of the first confirmed case of coronavirus in the Republic of Ireland.

Hyde and Seek was ordered to close its four branches last year.

"Our attitude is that you don’t get to be the best unless you play the best."

Is this the evening IT Carlow finally manage to get over the line, the evening where DJ Carey’s charges deliver the college a historic first Fitzgibbon Cup title?

It commemorates those who died in the Irish revolution.

On January 2, 2020, Jess Casey outlined in the Irish Examiner the details of fatalities on our roads, which saw a “worrying increase” in the number of drivers killed in crashes in 2019.

Legendary publican Brian O’Donnell of the Hi-B bar was yesterday given a fitting send-off by his family and a large gathering of friends who came together on a cold and cloudless day to remember a man as warm and as wildly eccentric as the city itself.

New figures show more than 2,800 passengers travelled on the Number 41 Dublin Bus from Lower Abbey St to Swords during the first five nights of the overnight service.

All-Ireland final referee David Gough has responded to the controversy generated by the Irish Examiner GAA Podcast, on which former Kerry manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice insisted Gough shouldn’t be selected to ref that final.

Tusla announced the decision today and revealed that the creches will close on December 31. Hyde and Seek as 21 days to appeal the decision.

Mr Justice Barniville accepted there would be enormous damage to the creche business with the loss of 45 jobs and alternative places having to be found for 220 children by their parents if the order were not granted.

More than 40 countries were represented at the service, and officials laid wreaths at the Irish military plot before The Last Post was played and the Irish flag was returned to full mast.

Food news with Joe McNamee.

Judging by the coverage on national and local radio on Friday morning, what we were was good and mad at Met Éireann.

In a Facebook post, the shop said that they were forced to close down due to accumulating debt.

Fine Gael TDs Noel Rock and Hildegarde Naughton are set to be promoted and take up Maria Bailey's Oireachtas committee places after her swing-gate fall from grace.

Katherine Zappone was also told at the time that the centre wasn't registered with Tusla.

As part of National Heritage Week, Doneraile Development Association will on Sunday (August 25) run a guided tour from 2.30pm-4.30pm through the historic garden spaces of Doneraile Park, Co Cork

The words have only just come out Tom Gray’s mouth when immediately he regrets them.

Almost one in five primary school children were in classes of 30 or more last year, with six schools recorded as having classrooms with 40 or more pupils.

From Galway to Listowel, these are weeks filled by racing festivals.

A Leaving Cert student who punched and kicked a fellow pupil in the face in a school corridor, knocking him briefly unconscious, has received a fully suspended sentence.

One of the owners of the Hyde & Seek Childcare crèche chain is to take no future role in front line childcare provision as a result of findings to be revealed in an RTÉ Investigates documentary.

The Irish National Stud and Gardens, Kildare, in association with ISNA, holds its first plant fair on Saturday, August 10, from 11am to 4pm. Admission €5, which will allow reduced entry into the Japanese Gardens.

In late July and on through August, on the biggest days of the GAA calendar — when all other space is filled — the Nally Terrace will be home to the GAA supporters who are unable to get tickets for anywhere else in Croke Park.

When infrastructure requires the sacrifice of communities it seems only better-off areas with political connections can stand up to projects, writes Michael Clifford.

It was hard not to groan at the news that a plan to build almost 300 homes in the Dublin suburb of Glasnevin has been turned down by the planning board.

John Daly looks at the incredible tale of how FoodCloud ha ensured 50 million meals have gone to people and not to waste.

Paint that produces heat for houses is the brainchild of Irish start-up EcoVolt, writes Trish Dromey.

Real IRA leader who plotted an explosion during the State visit of Britain’s Prince Charles in 2015 has died in prison.

A lecture theatre at Dublin City University is being named after journalist Veronica Guerin.

The High Court has ordered people trespassing on a former car showroom building opposite the Met Office in Glasnevin, Dublin, to leave.

A cynic, according to Oscar Wilde’s Lord Darlington, is “a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing”.

The Irish are obsessed with the weather — so it’s no surprise RTÉ is devoting a three-part series to the topic, writes Ailin Quinlan.

Dr Angie Brown, Irish Heart Foundation (IHF) medical director and consultant cardiologist at the Bon Secours Hospital, Beacon Hospital and Hermitage Clinic.

President Michael D Higgins has led a commemoration to mark the 103rd anniversary of the Easter Rising in Dublin.

The bodies of some of the children who died in Mother and Baby Homes were used for anatomical studies.

A State Commission has found that the bodies of hundreds of children from one Dublin mother and baby institution were used in anatomical research up to the late 1970s.

Father Fintan Gavin, 53, will become the fourth bishop to be appointed by the Vatican to join the Diocese of Cork and Ross, since it was formed in 1958.