Two men are being questioned about their roles in the riots in Dublin last November during which cars and buses were burned out, shops were looted and millions of euro worth of damage caused. The two men, one aged 18, the other in his 20s, are being detained at Store …

The pending 7% increase in Vhi private health insurance, on top of two previous hikes in March and October last year, is indicative of the fact that Ireland’s national health system is ailing, Labour leader Ivana Bacik has said. She told the Dáil that 2.4 million people in Ireland have …

Garry Ringrose has been ruled out of Ireland’s Guinness Six Nations opener against France on Friday night, while Joe McCarthy and Calvin Nash will make their first appearances in the championship as part of the starting team. Ringrose has returned early to Dublin from the training base in Portugal early …

There may be changes to simplify access to free GP care, the Minister for Health has said. Last August, free GP care was widened to include children aged six and seven. Speaking at the Oireachtas Health Committee, Stephen Donnelly said the low uptake of the GP visit cards was “very …

The announcement of details on the DUP deal will be 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 – expected to be around 1.30pm. This will be …

The country’s unemployment rate stood at 4.5% in both December and January after the December rate was revised down from 4.9%, new figures from the Central Statistics Office show today. The jobless rate had stood at 4.2% in January last year. Unemployment fell to a near record low of 4.1% …

The European Commission is recommending measures EU countries should adopt to increase the uptake of two vaccines that prevent viral infections that can cause cancer, it has said. The two vaccines are against the human papillomaviruses (HPV) that can cause many cancers, including cervical cancer, and against hepatitis B (HBV), …

Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary has said he does not see the purchase of 25 new-build houses in Swords as a big issue and said he would “apologise to nobody for it”. The airline has bought the properties to rent as cabin crew accommodation. It said: “In recent years the absence …

A Minister of State is among at least 380 submissions to Fingal Council objecting to expansion plans for Dublin Airport. Green Party TD and Minister of State for Community Development, Integration and Charities Joe O’Brien, who represents the local Dublin Fingal constituency, raised a number of concerns in his submission, …

“It’s not surprising” that the UK’s Legacy Act was discussed during a conversation between Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last night, Minister for the Environment, Climate, Communications and Transport Eamon Ryan has said. “It’s not surprising that that issue was raised, because it is contentious,” Mr …