Several safeguarding issues at nursing homes were discovered by the Health Information and Quality Authority in recent inspections. Among the 50 nursing home inspection reports published by HIQA, inspectors found that at a nursing home in Co Laois, three potential safeguarding incidents had not been “recognised or investigated”. A resident …

Australian police have found the bodies of a TV presenter and his flight attendant boyfriend in a rural area outside Sydney, acting on information from a police officer charged with their murder. The discovery ends an almost week-long high-profile search for the remains of entertainment journalist Jesse Baird, 26, and …

“It is really, really stressful” – Milo Watson is speaking about catching a bus using a wheelchair. “A lot of the time you’re panicking on whether you have enough space to go, if you’re going to get hit, and it’s the whole thing of having to actually plan your route …

DNA analysis has confirmed that a 70-year-old man who confessed on his hospital deathbed last month to being one of Japan’s most-wanted fugitives was indeed the suspect, police said. Satoshi Kirishima, a former member of a Japanese radical leftist group behind deadly bomb attacks in the 1970s, was wanted for …

A man in his 60s is still being questioned by gardaí investigating the murder of 84-year-old Paddy O’Mahony at his home near Castlemaine in Co Kerry. He was arrested just before midday yesterday on suspicion of murder involving the use of a firearm. He is being held at a garda …

Dublin-based bodycam company HALO has announced that it has closed a $20m funding round with US growth equity firm, Volition Capital. HALO said the investment follows rapid company growth fuelled by demand for its products. The money will be used to fund the expansion of the business and the growth …

The controversial EU Nature Restoration Law will face its final hurdle later today, when it goes before a vote in the European Parliament. Under the draft text, countries will be mandated to restore 20% of the EU’s land and sea areas by 2030 and all ecosystems by 2050. According to …

Minister for Education Norma Foley will this morning update Government on a review of the school transport scheme, which carries 160,000 students. The new study recommends that school transport should be made available to more students. Difficulties in finding more buses and drivers mean that the rules of the scheme …

70% of people found that the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions prevented their loved one having the death they would have wished for, according to a new survey for the Irish Hospice Foundation. The ‘Time to Reflect’ survey found that the pandemic had a profound impact on people’s experience of death, dying …

The Higher Education Authority (HEA) has told the country’s second largest university that it has “serious concerns” about how it is managing a financial deficit of €8.6 million. The HEA has called on its governing authority to conduct a formal review of its performance in managing and controlling the situation. …