News from Bandon

The State's child and family agency, Tusla, has said six young people are currently awaiting a place in a special care unit.

26 April 2024

Yesterday's ruling that overturned Harvey Weinstein's New York rape conviction gives the one-time film mogul a chance at a new trial and calls into question what evidence prosecutors can use in future sex crime cases.

26 April 2024

The content recommendation algorithm that powers the online short video platform TikTok has once again come under the spotlight after the US ordered its Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the app's US assets or face a nationwide ban.

26 April 2024

People living in counties Clare, Limerick and Tipperary are "in fear" of having to go to University Hospital Limerick's emergency department and "would rather die at home", according to a local campaigner.

26 April 2024

Chinese tech giant ByteDance has said it has no plans to sell TikTok after a new US law put it on a deadline to divest from the hugely popular video platform or have it banned in the US.

26 April 2024

Taoiseach Simon Harris has condemned attacks on gardaí during a protest at a site earmarked to accommodate international protection applicants in Co Wicklow last night.

26 April 2024

Renewed confrontations between police and students opposed to Israel's war in Gaza continued, raising questions about forceful methods being used to shut down protests that have intensified since mass arrests at Columbia University last week.

26 April 2024

US troops have begun construction of a maritime pier off the coast of Gaza that aims to speed the flow of humanitarian aid into the enclave when it becomes operational in May, the Pentagon has said.

26 April 2024

A ballot of workers at Tara Mines on a new deal to reopen the mine is under way.

26 April 2024

The Director General of the Irish Prison Service has said that in spite of the fact that over half of the country's inmates are serving sentences for violent crime, the level of violence in Irish prisons is relatively low.

25 April 2024

Uisce Éireann detected 52 cases of pesticides that exceeded allowable amounts in drinking water last year.

25 April 2024

The European Trade Union Confederation has issued a warning about the rise of climate-related workplace deaths.

25 April 2024

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has received five complaints relating to remote/flexible working since the introduction of the 'Right to Request Remote/Flexible Work' just under two months ago.

25 April 2024

There is currently no plan to open 20 specialist beds for adults with eating disorders that were planned under the HSE's 2018 programme of care

25 April 2024

World wine production dropped 10% last year, the biggest fall in more than six decades, because of "extreme" climate changes, the body that monitors the trade said.

25 April 2024

An Irish citizen who was reunited with his children in Dublin last year after the death of their mother in Gaza, has said that his father and two brothers, who are also Irish citizens, have been unable to flee the war-torn enclave.

25 April 2024

The parents of 16-year-old Aoife Johnston, who died from meningitis following a lengthy wait for treatment at UHL emergency department, have said they hope no other family experiences what they have gone through, and that action is taken to address problems at the hospital.

25 April 2024

Gardaí have identified more than 25 Irish children who have been victims of online child abuse material in the first three months of the year, a Policing Authority meeting has been told.

25 April 2024

Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction for sexual assault and rape has been overturned by New York's highest court, reopening the landmark case.

25 April 2024

A verdict of medical misadventure has been returned at the inquest into the death of Aoife Johnston. The Limerick Coroner John McNamara delivered his verdict after four days of evidence at Kilmallock Courthouse.

25 April 2024