Guidelines should see the level of damages awarded in personal injury cases reduce by 40% to 50% but anticipated premium reductions may not materialise

EU has launched legal proceedings against the UK following the decision by the secretary of state for Northern Ireland to unilaterally delay the full implementation of the Northern Ireland protocol

Nation needs to plan for coming social changes rather than quick-fix popular decisions

No evidence to conclude that exposure to low-level electromagnetic fields is harmful to human health.

Parents of special needs children need to ‘go to war’ with system for access to schools

There are more vacant council houses in Limerick than there are homeless people

Nature doesn't need well-intentioned interference from humans

The joy of students returning to classrooms yesterday was palpable to the point of being infectious

The election of Professor Linda Doyle to be the first female provost to lead Trinity College Dublin means the glass ceiling in Irish universities has been well and truly shattered

The former RTÉ broadcaster and Eurovision winning songwriter could easily be described as the very epitome of craic

The €2m drop in income from the Sugar Sweetened Drinks Tax (SSDT) last year suggests it is an effective way to protect public health

As we hopefully move towards a post pandemic world, many of us now question the direction our country is heading and the political legacy we our establishing for our grandchildren.

The Duke of Edinburgh and Queen Elizabeth's husband for more than 60 years, died peacefully at Windsor Castle just weeks before his 100th birthday.

Nation struggling with lockdown needs quarantine restrictions to work this time.

Recovering social equity

Our culture of bending the laws

€10m posting pay slips

Northern Ireland’s First Minister, Arlene Foster, has to take at least some responsibility for the riots and violence seen on the streets of Derry and other urban centres in the North over the past few days

Whenever unions perceive a problem that may affect their members, they tend to signal industrial action all too early in the proceedings

Fighting the pandemic

Remember others’ great needs

President until 2036?

Unchanging institutions rejected

Teachers in conference

Ambitious Lee proposal

Freedom of Information Act

Street violence in Northern Ireland

A weekend opinion poll records that support for government pandemic measures has fallen dramatically.   Support for the Government's handling of Covid-19 has fallen to 43%, the first time it has gone below 50%.

A fresh eye on the past could rebuild relationships and shape the future

It is a sign of how little progress has been made in the understanding of sexual violence that the director of the Kerry Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre, Vera O’Leary, has had to offer awareness training to the GAA after glowing testimonials were ...

Today is World Autism Awareness Day,  which set a number of objectives when it began in 2007. Foremost was a call to raise awareness around autism. 

Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has endured unrelenting criticism over how Official Ireland has managed, or mismanaged, this pandemic.

From financial scandals to the Beacon furore to the Dublin GAA early-morning training session this week, a sense of entitlement abounds

A review of ‘non-essential’ retail would not take place until May, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe said in the morning. By lunchtime, that had changed. Then the Taoiseach gave yet another version

The idea of bringing people back into the city centre to create a more human, vibrant, and neighbourhood-like environment is not new, but the pandemic has given it a renewed impetus

Eagle-eyed Irish viewers looked right past the scantily clad superstar to spot the household must-have that has helped us negotiate everything from nappy rash to bedsores since it was developed here in the 1930s

The Beacon Hospital Covid-19 vaccination controversy is just another event in a long list of queue-jumping in our health services.

Red tape delays vaccines

Legislation for sea wind farms would help the public buy-in their development.

High-speed broadband at the heart of a rejuvenated rural economy but swathes of country struggle with connectivity

Despite huge advances in communications our economies are still dependent on cargo ships sailing the high seas

The warning that we can anticipate that more homeless people will die on the streets of Cork can hardly be ignored. It came from Cork Penny Dinners just days after the second homeless man to die in the city in under two weeks was buried.

For a brief few hours this weekend, it looked as if our prospects, like the clocks, had changed to usher in sunnier days. The Sunday Times reported that Britain might offer 3.7m badly-needed Covid-19 vaccines to the Republic, almost half the 8m ...

Myanmar has been under military rule since it won independence from Britain in 1948.

Setting a good example, as any caring parent knows, is everything.

It is welcome news that the Taoiseach is to seek a policy review following revelations by a whistleblower that the Department of Health gathered sensitive, personal information about children with autism, without their knowledge or consent, to add ...

When US president Joe Biden was asked about the plight of migrants at the US-Mexico border during his first formal press conference, he referred to his own Irish ancestry again.

News that writer Mary Lavin is to have a public space in Dublin named after her is reason to celebrate. The gifted short story writer and novelist left behind a body of work that deserves new readers.

Irish reunification is a noble cause but it does not have the same urgency as confronting climate change

Ulster Bank has been fined almost €37.8m over the "deliberate" tracker mortgage scandal