Green Party Minister for Energy and Natural Resources Eamon Ryan today fuelled speculation that there is an internal party agreement on the rotation of ministerial positions. […]
The Catholic Bishop of Elphin, Christopher Jones, has accused the media of being “unfair and unjust” to his Church through a concentration on the handling by Church authorities of the clerical child sex abuse issue. […]
The Israeli Ambassador to Ireland, Dr Zion Evrony, has declined a request to attend a meeting of an Oireachtas committee to discuss the use of forged Irish passports by a team allegedly responsible for the assassination of a senior Hamas operative. […]
A Vatican statement on clerical child abuse issued after last month’s historic meeting between Pope Benedict and Irish Catholic leaders was only “one part of a long term process of renewal”, Irish bishops said today at the conclusion of their two-day spring meeting in Maynooth. […]
THERE was no winner of last night's €2m Lotto jackpot and Saturday's prize is heading for €4.5m as €2m is added to celebrate the St Patrick's Festival weekend. Last night's winning numbers were 9, 18, 22, 26, 27, 39. The bonus number was 33. […]
BUS services across the country are to be further reduced as part of Bus Eireann's multi-million euro cost cutting plan, the company said yesterday. […]
SENIOR executives at the hospital at the centre of the X-ray scandal ignored repeated demands for answers from a patient safety watchdog for almost a year. […]
HOW can a backlog of just a few thousand unread X-rays -- which was supposed to be "under control" in August -- suddenly become a mountain of almost 58,000 by Dec-ember? […]
'Jihad Jane', the mastermind behind the alleged plot to murder controversial Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, spent two weeks in Ireland on a fact-finding mission. […]