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Pat Flanagan column: Civil servants' pay under the microscope amid soaring living costs

Families will get €113 to cover their spiralling energy bills while Robert Watt is on €816 a day

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Mary Lou McDonald: No child should have to bare their agony on TV to get the care they need

Mary Lou McDonald

At the weekend, 11-year-old Ava Cahill from Tallaght told RTE the story of her hope for spina bifida surgery.

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Sinn Fein's Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Students need a choice on the Leaving Cert

I am once again urging Minister Norma Foley to listen to pupils and to their parents

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Pat Flanagan: RTE is obsessed with Boris Johnson and the law but is ignoring Leo Varadkar's own investigation

It would appear that RTE and many other media outlets deem it safe to gloat over Britain’s scandals but dare not mention, let alone expose, our own

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John Kierans column: Russia's military moves may muddy Irish waters

I am fearful the Russians will invade Ukraine and the implications for Europe and the EU will be immense

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Pat Flanagan column: 'Watershed' Ashling Murphy killing cannot be diluted down

We’ve had so many supposedly watershed moments, when cataclysmic changes were predicted, only for the good intentions to evaporate and old ways resume

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John Kierans column: Zero tolerance society needed after Ashling Murphy murder

The facts paint a picture of a country which has failed badly to protect women

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Pat Flanagan column: Bonkers Government and NPHET rules are taking the public for fools

Coronavirus Ireland

Something is going radically wrong and there is now a real danger that the Government and NPHET will lose the public’s support. They’re certainly losing mine

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Luke O'Neill: 'My one reason for optimism that the Covid-19 pandemic may soon be behind us'

'Your immune system has been sculpted by millions of years of evolution. It has all kinds of tricks up its sleeve and luckily, so far at least, the T-cell trick is holding up against Omicron'

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John Kierans column: Sinead O'Connor will ensure truth comes out about what happened to tragic son Shane

Sinead O'Connor

My heart goes out to Sinead and Donal. They did not deserve to lose their son

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Sinn Fein's Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 'School safety measures are simply not adequate'

Getting schools open isn’t just about one day, it is about keeping them open, and safely

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Pat Flanagan column: Booze bigots' price hike is an attack on working people

This is in everything but name another tax on the poor

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John Kierans column: Health Minister Stephen Donnelly and Dr Tony Holohan should have a good look at themselves in the mirror

Coronavirus Ireland

They didn’t trust us

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Pat Flanagan: Senior civil servants flouted Covid rules during lockdown - so when's the court case?

Coronavirus Ireland

"When can we expect An Garda Siochana to take statements from the head honchos at the Department of Foreign Affairs? When hell freezes over, that’s when"

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John Kierans column: It's time we follow Spain and learn how to live with Covid

Coronavirus Ireland

"The Spanish are no longer obsessed with the disease like we seem to be and don’t terrorise their people"

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Pat Flanagan column: How Ireland works as we 'can't rock up and buy a hospital' - even in a pandemic

Micheal and Leo are of one mind when it comes to how services are provided, even for a population being ravaged by a pandemic

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John Kierans column: If we want to live with Covid we need more hospital beds, no excuses

Coronavirus Ireland

This current Covid wave is not a Covid death crisis, but an Irish hospital bed capacity crisis - they deliberately have not told you that

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Pat Flanagan column: Wouldn't Labour love to have negative information removed from Google like Sean Quinn

The bankrupt billionaire has used the Right To Be Forgotten privacy law to get Google to take down scores of articles about some past legal affairs

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John Kierans column: Time to start playing hardball as Covid-19 spreads in Ireland

Coronavirus Ireland

From here on, if any premises are not enforcing the rules they should be shut down immediately and closed for several months

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Pat Flanagan column: Glossing over Sean FitzPatrick's awful legacy risks repeating same mistakes

Sean FitzPatrick

If 'Seanie' FitzPatrick became public enemy number one it is because he failed to show the slightest hint of remorse for the part his bank played in wrecking the Irish economy and so many lives

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John Kierans column: We need to shut nightclubs to avoid a Christmas lockdown

Any young person I spoke to over the past fortnight has told me nothing but horror stories about the discos

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Lord Henry column: Back-to-basics Christmas will be for the best

Coronavirus Ireland

I urge you all to be restrained in your social activity and heed the words of wisdom uttered by the CMO Dr Tony Holohan

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Pat Flanagan column: Ireland's COP26 climate commitments will pile misery on those barely getting by

If an Irish Government has totally failed to sort out the housing crisis in the last 10 years how can they reach their climate change goals in less than a decade?

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John Kierans column: Time to shake off the shame of suffering mental illness in Ireland

There are thousands upon thousands of our people suffering some kind of mental illness and they desperately need help

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Galway Woman wins 'biggest ever' prize in Irish radio history live on air as kids steal show The sweet moment was heard live on air and brought about wide smiles in the studio

Woman declares brother 'dead to me' after husband's horror killing

In an exclusive interview with this paper, mother-of-seven Elizabeth Cash said she can never forgive her brother Andy - after he was found guilty of her husband John Cash’s killing earlier this week.

Driver ignored multiple Garda instructions before fatal crash, inquest hears

Mr Sheridan, a married father of three from Effernock, Trim, Co Meath sustained serious injuries when his 151-reg Mercedes E 300 failed to take a bend and struck a wall at Patrick Street, Trim moments later at around 1.55am.

Independent TD's plant-hire firm doubles cash pile and records €65,000 profits

Mattie McGrath's company was awarded contracts by Tipperary County Council, Waterford County Council and Irish Water

M50 madness as e-scooter zooms down Ireland's busiest motorway during morning rush hour

The man, who was wearing a hi-vis jacket and a backpack, is seen speeding along on the middle lane of the motorway – as cars and lorries overtake him.

RTE Irish mum's joy as deaf son Eoghan, 9, has his first day at school The mother-of-three opens up in a new RTE documentary Deaf Not Dumb about the struggle to get him into school

Ireland weather: First 'relatively widespread frost' of season on Friday before temperatures rise

Temperatures are set to drop to between -3C and +2C on Friday before they shoot up again for Saturday

HSE paid €130,000 for 29 people to undergo gender reassignment ops outside state

The health authority funded 41 trips abroad for gender reassignment surgeries and related treatments in the past three years, new figures show

Number of assessment of needs completions overdue jumps by over 200% in a year

Figures provided to Sinn Féin health spokesman David Cullinane by the HSE show that nearly 5,000 children are waiting more than three months for their assessment of needs to be completed in the second quarter of this year.

Five cash supports to help with heating costs that you may not know about

With temperatures set to drop and no sign that energy prices will follow, people need all the help they can get to make ends meet

Galway Woman wins 'biggest ever' prize in Irish radio history live on air as kids steal show The sweet moment was heard live on air and brought about wide smiles in the studio

Woman declares brother 'dead to me' after husband's horror killing

In an exclusive interview with this paper, mother-of-seven Elizabeth Cash said she can never forgive her brother Andy - after he was found guilty of her husband John Cash’s killing earlier this week.

Former Ireland stars deliver parting shots at Stephen Kenny

Republic of Ireland Soccer Team

Kenny's time in charge of the Boys in Green looks destined to come to an end as his contract expires after a dire Euro 2024 qualifying campaign

The greatest Republic of Ireland XI of all-time according to AI

Republic of Ireland national football team

The likes of Roy Keane, Paul McGrath and Liam Brady are all involved

Lottie Ryan opens up on pain of seeing her brother forced to emigrate

"Now, Elliott is in the position that so many people in the country are in, he's like, 'Housing is just too expensive'."

RTE Irish mum's joy as deaf son Eoghan, 9, has his first day at school The mother-of-three opens up in a new RTE documentary Deaf Not Dumb about the struggle to get him into school

Chantelle Cameron v Katie Taylor 2 public workout interrupted by TikToker challenging Thomas Carty to fight

Katie Taylor v Chantelle Cameron

Thomas Carty was confronted by a man on an escalator shouting abuse in his direction and challenging him to a fight

Ireland weather: First 'relatively widespread frost' of season on Friday before temperatures rise

Temperatures are set to drop to between -3C and +2C on Friday before they shoot up again for Saturday

The greatest Gaelic football team of all-time according to AI with David Clifford not included

We asked AI to name the "greatest Gaelic football team of all time based on players in all positions"

'It’s a great job now – an absolutely great job now' - Stephen Kenny on the job he leaves behind

Republic of Ireland national football team

Stephen Kenny's ambition ultimately brought him to a dark place, but it has offered a glimmer of light for the future of Irish football.