A coalition of business interest groups have reiterated their call for urgent action to be taken to increase the number of taxis available across the country. The Taxis for Ireland Coalition said there is a chronic shortage of availability, particularly during peak times. The group is meeting with TDs and …

DUP stalwart and MP for East Antrim Sammy Wilson has branded the UK government as “spineless, weak-kneed and Brexit-betraying” after it published the details of the deal it reached with the DUP on post-Brexit trade arrangements. It comes as the UK government unveiled details of the deal and hailed it …

The details on the DUP deal have been worked on right up to the last moment. It was only shortly after 11am that it was revealed that Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton Harris would address the House of Commons today. This was followed by a unscheduled Business Statement from the …

The Director General of RTÉ has told staff that an exit package for the broadcaster’s former Chief Financial Officer Breda O’Keeffe was not brought before the broadcaster’s executive board. Kevin Bakhurst told a town hall meeting of employees that the package was agreed between Ms O’Keeffe and the former RTÉ …

SIPTU has announced plans for a ballot of members on the new public sector pay deal. The union’s executive is recommending acceptance of the agreement which will provide for pay increases of 10.25% and over a two-and-a-half year period. The deal is estimated to be worth up to 17.3% for …

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The Wayfinding Centre is a training facility focused on making public transport more accessible to people with disabilities. The state-of-the-art centre, which opens in April, is the first of its kind in the world. Based in the former Smurfit Kappa Ireland Printworks in Glasnevin in Dublin, the 31,000 square-foot building …

More than 12,100 patients did not have a hospital bed in January, according to figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation. The INMO said University Hospital Limerick had the highest number of patients without a bed this month at 2,073. Cork University Hospital had the second highest figure (1,632), …

Female members of the Defence Forces will be allowed to wear nail varnish and fake tan and have up to six different hair styles under new rules to come into effect tomorrow, the officer tasked with reviewing grooming standards has said. Sergeant Major Keith Caffrey said the Defence Forces are …

An expert witness has told the Stardust inquests that a fire was probably “at or past its peak” when the first Dublin Fire Brigade crew arrived on the scene. Mark Ross, a former member of the London Fire Brigade for over 25 years, was giving evidence today at the Dublin …