Minister of State Jack Chambers has said that the case of a girl with a disability who was left in a dark hospital room for 60 days was “totally unacceptable”. Speaking on RTÉ’s Saturday with Colm Ó Mongáin, he said that it was a shocking dereliction of care and that …

It’s a case of win or bust for the Irish as they take on Great Britain knowing that victory will secure their ticket for the Paris Olympics. Source link

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says they may look at introducing a proviso that the government will have to be consulted on name changes for stadiums when they are providing grant assistance for new or redeveloped grounds. Mr Varadkar was speaking in Galway on his way in to watch Connacht against Bristol …

An Israeli missile strike on Syria’s capital Damascus has killed four members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, including the head of the force’s information unit in Syria, a security source in the regional pro-Syria alliance told Reuters. In a statement carried on Iranian state television, the Revolutionary Guards confirmed that four …

Oliver Callan has been announced as the new presenter of the nine o’clock show on RTÉ radio 1. He has been presenting the programme on rotation since the summer, after Ryan Tubridy’s departure from the station last summer. Speaking on RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor, Oliver Callan said he is really excited …

Met Éireann has issued a Status Orange wind warning for most of the country, due to come into effect tomorrow. The forecaster says that the wind warning for counties Carlow, Dublin, Kilkenny, Longford, Louth, Wexford, Wicklow, Cavan, Monaghan as well as Munster and Connacht will be in place from 5pm …

Let’s get the Iowa results out of the way first, Donald Trump won a crushing victory with 56,250 votes out of 594,533 active registered republican voters, out of a total state population of 3.1 million people. 110,298 voters braved the arctic conditions to take part in the caucuses. That’s about …

A fire in a school dormitory in central China killed 13 students and injured another person, Chinese state media has reported. The students who died were third graders at an elementary school, according to China Newsweek, a weekly magazine published by China News Service, the second largest Chinese news agency …

Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott told Patrick Kielty on Friday’s Late Late Show that the experience of making their new film All of Us Strangers has given them a great friendship as well as being one of the highlights of their working lives. Couldn’t be more obsessed with the Bromance …

The hardcore Brexiteers were once known as ‘The Spartans’. They seemed to revel in the image of steely-eyed warriors armed with purity of purpose. However, after last week’s failure to disrupt the Rwanda vote, they were more reminiscent of the nursery rhyme character the “Grand Old Duke of York”. He …