Labour leader Ivana Bacik has accused “unscrupulous landlords” of taking advantage of the rental crisis. During Leaders Questions in the Dáil, she referred to the case of Marc Godart, a Luxemburg investor, accused of unlawful evictions, failing to pay compensation to former tenants who won cases at the Residential Tenancies …

A tech firm which admitted unfairly sacking its Irish founder has been ordered to pay him €464,000 in an awards package which includes the new record order for losses from dismissal by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC). Hyph Ireland Ltd, formerly Xhail Ireland Ltd, was hit with orders to pay …

Google has said it will stop users from creating images of people on its newly launched artificial intelligence (AI) tool after the programme depicted Nazi-era troops as people from diverse ethnic backgrounds. The US tech firm, which only released its revamped Gemini AI in some parts of the world on …

RTÉ News understands that forensic analysis on last week’s half tonne seizure of synthetic drugs at the Port of Cork has found it to be MDMA, rather than crystal meth as originally suspected. The 546kg seizure came after a joint operation between gardaí and revenue. They were concealed in machinery …

The Football Association of Ireland has admitted that it used some of the €33.7 million provided for Covid-19 resilience to pay off a ‘legacy’ debt, which was against the terms of state funding intended only to offset turnover losses caused by the pandemic. In response to a question from Deputy …

Late Late Show host Patrick Kielty has been named Grand Marshal for the national 2024 St Patrick’s Day parade in Dublin. The broadcaster and comedian from Dundrum, Co Down, said: “It’s such a honour to be asked and I was genuinely gobsmacked when the call came in. “When you’re lucky …

Representatives of the FAI are at Leinster House to appear before the committee, where funding provided to the the association from Sport Ireland and the Exchequer will be examined. Source link

The Irish Government will today make a submission at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a case concerning Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory. The proceedings follow a December 2022 resolution of the UN General Assembly, meaning they predate the 7 October massacre in Israel and the ensuing hostilities in …

Political indications suggest that the latest RTÉ legal advice makes it clear that confidentiality clauses covering payments to departing executives cannot be breached without taking court action. There are suggestions that an overall figure for the amount of money paid to executives who left the organisation could now be provided …

The Kremlin has said a remark by US President Joe Biden calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “crazy SOB” was shameful, and was a poor attempt to appear like a “Hollywood cowboy”. The US president made the comment during a fundraiser in San Francisco yesterday, and also said there was …