New mental health guidelines for schools

The Government has published new national guidelines on mental health and suicide prevention in second level schools. It is estimated that one in ten children and teenagers experience mental health problems. The Government said schools have a unique...

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Committee hands over abortion hearing report

Minister for Health James Reilly has said he will bring a memo to Cabinet next week on the policy issues involved in legislation on abortion. Mr Reilly said he still hopes to have the legislation passed by the Dáil's summer recess. He was speaking...

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'Legal hurdles' to adoption by genetic parents

The High Court has heard that the genetic parents of twins born to a surrogate mother could face possibly insurmountable legal hurdles if they were to try to adopt the children. On the final day of the case, lawyers for the couple said because the twins...

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Hall to appeal as promissory note challenge fails

The High Court has dismissed a legal challenge to the Government's use of promissory notes, ruling that businessman David Hall did not have the legal standing to take the case. Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns said Mr Hall was not entitled to bring this case...

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Shatter stands by garda station closures

Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has said garda stations do not act as a deterrent to burglaries and that the 100 stations that are due to close this year will be shut down. There are 95 stations closing today in what Mr Shatter said is essentially...

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Examiner appointed to DIY chain B&Q Ireland

B&Q Ireland Ltd has successfully filed a petition with the High Court in Dublin seeking the appointment of an examiner. The court has granted protection for the company and has appointed Declan McDonald of PWC as interim examiner. B&Q has nine...

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HIQA reports highly critical of several hospitals

A HIQA inspection of Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Crumlin has found that all clinical areas examined were generally unclean with the exception of the Emergency Department. The Health Information and Quality Authority published 14 hygiene...

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Ban: End Syria conflict 'in name of humanity'

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appealed for an end to the violence in Syria and urged more aid to address a situation he said was catastrophic and worsening by the day. He denounced the "unrelenting horrors" in the war, and said much remains to...

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VHI to increase premiums by average of 6%

Vhi Healthcare has announced that it will increase its prices by an average of 6% from next month. For most plans the price increase will be effective from the beginning of March. The company said its most popular plans - One + Plan and One Plan Choice...

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Tesco drops Silvercrest over horse DNA controversy

Silvercrest Foods has lost its contract with Tesco for the supply of frozen beef burgers, in the wake of the horse meat controversy. Earlier this month, a Tesco burger made by the Co Monaghan based company was shown to contain 29% horse meat. Investigations...

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Man charged with manslaughter of Jason McGovern

A 21-year-old man has been charged with the manslaughter of Jason McGovern. The Co Monaghan teenager was found dead on New Years' Eve, hours after he was assaulted while on a night out in Omagh, Co Tyrone. The 19-year-old from Tydavnet was assaulted...

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State funeral of Det Garda Donohoe taking place

The State funeral of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe is taking place in Dundalk, Co Louth. Chief celebrant Fr Michael Cusack told the congregation that no one could adequately put into words the pain suffered by Det Garda Donohoe's wife and children....

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Education Dept to strengthen bullying guidelines

The Department of Education is to revise and strengthen anti-bullying guidelines for schools by next September. A new 'Action Plan on Bullying', published today, says the new guidelines should aim to prevent and tackle homophobic and trans-phobic bullying...

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65 people found executed in Aleppo - activists

Activists say that at least 65 people, apparently shot in the head, have been found dead in a neighbourhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the men were found with their hands...

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Car used by Det Donohoe killers stolen in Louth

Gardaí believe the car used by the killers of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe was stolen in Clogherhead, Co Louth, and remained in the area days before the armed robbery. The burnt-out Volkswagen Passat found in woods in south Armagh is being...

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Surrogacy twins 'denied right to family'

Twins born to a surrogate mother are deprived of their right to be part of a constitutional family while the law fails to recognise their biological mother, the High Court has heard. The submission was made by lawyers for a woman who has taken legal...

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Funeral of former footballer Kevin Heffernan held

The funeral of Dublin footballer and manager Kevin Heffernan has taken place. Huge crowds attended the funeral mass of the 83-year-old in the St Vincent De Paul Church in Marino, Dublin. Representatives of President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach...

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Five injured in Longford garden centre accident

Two people are reported to have been seriously hurt after a wall collapsed at a premises in Longford. Three other people were also injured when the internal wall fell in the Connacht Gold DIY and Garden Centre on the Athlone Road. The centre has been...

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Galway woman guilty of 2011 manslaughter

A jury at the Central Criminal Court has found a 31-year-old woman guilty of the manslaughter of a man in 2011. Maura Thornton, from Inverin in Connemara, had denied the murder of 59-year-old Kevin Joyce at an apartment in Upper Salthill in July 2011....

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Hogan says FF 'trying to undermine' new facility

Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan has accused Fianna Fáil of "trying to undermine" a new facility at St Luke's Hospital in Kilkenny. His comments follow controversy after hospital projects in Kilkenny and Wexford were fast-tracked by...

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Film-maker Éamon de Buitléar dies aged 83

The death has taken place of wildlife film-maker and former senator Éamon de Buitléar. Mr de Buitléar, who was 83, died at his home in Delgany, Co Wicklow, last night. He was Ireland's best known independent wildlife film-maker since the 1960s. He...

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Two arrested after Limerick taxi hijacking

Two men in their 20s have been arrested after a taxi was hijacked and the driver threatened at knifepoint in Limerick city over the weekend. The taxi was hailed by two men in the Dooradoyle area after 10pm on Saturday night. They asked the driver to...

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Gang that murdered detective left €40,000 behind

The gang that shot dead Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe did not succeed in stealing all the money from the Lordship Credit Union in Co Louth. As much as €40,000 in cash and cheques was left behind after the gang fled the scene with just...

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Three killed in separate road crashes

Three people have died in separate road crashes around the country. An 80-year-old woman died in a two-car collision on the northbound section of the M50 motorway in Dublin. The crash happened near the Red Cow Inn at 10.30pm last night. The injured...

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Man killed in Kildare road crash

A man in his 20s has been killed in a road crash in Co Kildare. The crash, in which a garda car was involved, happened on the Naas to Newbridge road at 3.20am this morning. The man was taken to Naas General Hospital, but he died a short time later....

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Urgent need for deal on Irish bank debt - Gilmore

Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore is to tell EU and Latin American leaders that there is an urgent need for an appropriate deal with the European Central Bank on Ireland's bank debt. Mr Gilmore will make his comments in an address...

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Upgrades to ministers' local hospitals accelerated

Hospital upgrades in the constituencies of two Cabinet colleagues were accelerated in the HSE Capital Plan at the behest of the Minister for Health, RTÉ's This Week programme has learned under documents released under the Freedom of Information Act....

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Irish food industry 'vindicated' over horse DNA

The Minister for Agriculture has said that the Irish food industry has been vindicated after ingredients imported from Poland were confirmed as the source of the horse DNA found in burgers manufactured at the Silvercrest plant in Ballybay, Co Monaghan....

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245 killed in Brazil nightclub fire

At least 245 people have been killed in a fire at a nightclub in southern Brazil after a band's pyrotechnics show set the building ablaze, local police said. Bodies are still being removed from the Kiss nightclub in the southern city of Santa Maria,...

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Gardaí renew appeal to find detective's killers

Gardaí investigating the killing of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe have renewed their appeal for information. The scene at the Lordship Credit Union in Co Louth where the shooting and armed robbery took place on Friday night remains sealed off for searches...

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Three held over Dublin assault

Three men have been arrested as part of an investigation into a serious assault in Dublin in the early hours of this morning. A 40-year-old man suffered stab wounds in the attack in Kimmage at about 2.45am. The man was discovered outside a house at...

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Egypt army to deploy after Port Said riot

An Egyptian court has sentenced to death 21 people accused of involvement in the Port Said football stadium disaster in which 74 people were killed last year. The ruling sparked off an attempted jailbreak and a riot that killed another eight in the...

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Man arrested over Wicklow murder

Gardaí investigating the murder of Philip O'Toole in Co Wicklow have arrested a man in his 40s. The man was arrested in Bray, Co Wicklow this morning and is being held at Bray Garda Station. He can be questioned for up to seven days. Mr O'Toole was...

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Convention discusses reducing Presidential term

The first working meeting of the Constitutional Convention is under way, with discussions on proposals to lower the voting age and to reduce the Presidential term of office to five years. The convention opened with condolences to the family of Garda...

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Detective Donohoe killed 'without warning'

Gardaí have said Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe was killed without warning and did not produce his weapon before he was shot. Detective Garda Donohoe, who was married with two children, was fired on by raiders outside a credit union in Bellurgan, Jenkinstown,...

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French forces seize key targets in Mali

French forces in Mali have seized the airport and the bridge over the Niger River at the rebel-held stronghold of Gao, the French Defence Ministry said. French and Malian troops have advanced rapidly against al-Qaeda-allied Islamist militant fighters...

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British retailer takes burgers off shelves

British supermarket chain Waitrose has become the latest retailer to pull beefburgers from its shelves because of the horsemeat controversy. The company said it took frozen burgers made by Dalepak, one of the firms at the centre of the investigation,...

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AGSI to withdraw from Croke Park talks

The Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors has said it is pulling out of talks on the extension of the Croke Park Agreement. The decision was taken at a special meeting of the national executive in Dublin today. AGSI General Secretary John Redmond...

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Two held in human trafficking probe

A man and a woman are being questioned by gardaí as part of an investigation into human trafficking. Planned searches in Dublin, Dundalk and Athlone took place as part of Operation Quest yesterday. A man in his 20s and a woman in her early 30s are...

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Body discovered during search for missing man

Gardaí investigating the disappearance of a 33-year-old man have discovered a body in Co Wicklow. Father-of-one Philip O'Toole has been missing for more than two weeks. He was last seen leaving a house in Arklow on 7 January and his car was later found...

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NI man gets 25 years in jail for toddler's murder

A man has been ordered to serve at least 25 years for murdering the 15-month-old daughter of his former partner. Barry McCarney, 33, from Trillick, Co Tyrone, was found guilty last month of Millie Martin's murder in Enniskillen in 2009. Mr Justice...

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No new prosecutions in Martin O'Hagan murder case

Eight people investigated over the murder of a Northern Ireland journalist more than a decade ago will not be prosecuted because of concerns about evidence from a key witness. Sunday World reporter Martin O'Hagan, 51, was shot dead by loyalists in Lurgan,...

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Kenny defends Ireland's 12.5% corporation tax

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said that Ireland's 12.5% corporate tax rate is "transparent across the entire spectrum". Mr Kenny said the tax regime in Europe in general "may lead companies to make decisions about their tax rates", but that Ireland is not...

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Judge revokes bail of sex offender Patrick O'Brien

Mr Justice Paul Carney has revoked the bail of convicted sex offender Patrick O'Brien, who admitted the rape and indecent assault of his daughter over a ten-year period. The judge apologised to O'Brien's victim, Fiona Doyle, and expressed his profound...

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Republican Dolours Price dies aged 61

The death has taken place of Dolours Price, who was jailed for her part in the IRA bombing of the Old Bailey in March 1973. The 61-year-old was originally from Belfast, but had been living in Malahide in Dublin. A post mortem on the circumstances of...

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'Do not resuscitate' notes at nursing home queried

A new inspection report into the private Mullross Nursing Home in Kilclare, Co Leitrim, has revealed that "do not resuscitate" directions were in some residents' files. The report says there was no evidence available that the home had ensured this had...

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IFA accuses FSAI over burger statements

Irish Farmers' Association President John Bryan has said the Food Safety Authority of Ireland had handled the horse DNA controversy badly. He said its initial statement on the matter was misleading. Mr Bryan said he wants the pace of the investigation...

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