Minister for Media Catherine Martin will this evening face questions at an Oireachtas committee about her handling of events that led to the resignation of Siún Ní Raghallaigh as chair of the RTÉ Board. Ms Ní Raghallaigh resigned in the early hours of Friday morning after the minister failed to …

Dublin-based managed IT services company IT.ie has announced plans to double its headcount in the next three years with the creation of 30 new jobs. The company will invest €2.5 million in its team expansion and will hire for roles in its offices in Dublin, Cork and Galway. The new …

The number of parents reducing their food intake to ensure their children have enough to eat has increased by 12% since last year, according to Barnardos. It found that 41% of parents have said they had skipped meals or reduced portion sizes to enable their children to have food. The …

The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that it is providing assistance to an Irish citizen who has reportedly been detained in Iraq. Yasser Eljuboori, an anti-corruption advocate born in Iraq, was detained while on his way back to Ireland, according to a post by his wife, Laura Wickham, on …

The Eagles front man Don Henley has said he was the victim of “extortion” as the trial began of three men accused of trying to sell around 100 pages of stolen notes from the band’s 1976 album “Hotel California”. The large notebooks’ contents were the product of the band’s work …

Hezbollah fired a volley of rockets at an Israeli military base, the Lebanese group said today after Israel’s first strikes on Lebanon’s east in months of hostilities linked to the Gaza war. It was the first Israeli attack on Hezbollah outside Lebanon’s south since war erupted on 7 October between …

Two men who set upon two American tourists in a “cowardly, nasty and violent” assault have been jailed for two and a half years and 18 months respectively. The tourists – twin brothers aged 20 – were walking home through Temple Bar on 19 July last year when they were …

Dawn raids have been carried out by the competition watchdog on a number of businesses in the home alarm industry. The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) said the searches form part of an ongoing criminal investigation into potential breaches of competition law. Officers from the Garda National Economic Crime …

President Michael D Higgins has appealed to countries that have withdrawn funding from a relief agency in Gaza to “think again” and provide support to help avoid a “catastrophe”. Several countries have frozen funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) while a review of Israeli …

Dawn raids have been carried out by the competition watchdog on a number of businesses in the home alarm industry. The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) said the searches form part of an ongoing criminal investigation into potential breaches of competition law. Officers from the Garda National Economic Crime …