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The Health Service Executive (HSE) has said there are 800,000 fewer smokers in Ireland since smoking was banned in workplaces, bars and restaurants 20 years ago.
28 March 2024
The number of people accessing emergency accommodation reached another record high last month, with 13,841 people recorded as homeless, of whom 4,170 were children.
28 March 2024
Sport Ireland has published new guidance on the inclusion of transgender and non-binary people in sport.
28 March 2024
The government of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis faces a no-confidence vote over the handling of a train crash last year that killed 57 people, after media reports emerged this week alleging manipulation of evidence.
28 March 2024
There was an increase in the number of social and affordable homes delivered last year, but the figures fell short of the Government's overall targets.
28 March 2024
The risks posed by armed conflict, terrorism and hybrid security threats are compounded by Ireland's low level of investment in military and defence, according to the National Risk assessment.
28 March 2024
Battles and bombardment pounded Gaza after the US said Israel had agreed to reschedule talks that had been cancelled amid tensions between the allies.
28 March 2024
An organisation which helps thousands of people at risk of homelessness has launched a new 'front door' project which aims to highlight the importance of having a home.
28 March 2024
The Kremlin gave no indication that President Vladimir Putin plans to visit family members of those killed in last Friday's attack on a Moscow concert hall, which killed 143 people.
28 March 2024
More than 160 young delegates from Comhairle na nÓg youth groups across Ireland met in Dáil Éireann this morning to debate the critical issue of mental health, one of the biggest topics of concern to young people in Ireland, according to organisers.
28 March 2024
Almost 900,000 counterfeit or illegal medicines were seized by authorities in Ireland last year, according to the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA).
28 March 2024
Athenians are choking in clouds of thick dust blown in from the Sahara along with unseasonably warm weather, weather forecasters and doctors have warned.
28 March 2024
Four people have been arrested in connection with a suspected arson attack at a hotel earmarked for asylum seekers in Co Galway last December.
28 March 2024
Minister for Integration Roderic O'Gorman has said he does not accept that the new accommodation strategy for international protection applicants is direct provision under another name.
28 March 2024
Tributes have been paid to the mother and her two daughters who died in a road traffic collision near Claremorris, Co Mayo, on Tuesday.
28 March 2024
Chancellor of University of Limerick Brigid Laffan is addressing staff at the college as the controversy sparked by the purchase of 20 homes in a nearby housing estate continues to grow.
28 March 2024
Inflation in Ireland has fallen significantly in recent months, but a number of cost increases will weigh on consumers from next Monday.
28 March 2024
Unions have pushed back against complaints from businesses about rising labour costs arising from a series of Government policy changes aimed at improving conditions for workers.
28 March 2024
The bodies of two men have been recovered from the water after a bridge collapsed in Baltimore when a freight ship crashed into it, officials have said.
28 March 2024
The sentencing hearing of Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is under way in the United States.
28 March 2024