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The Scoliosis Advocacy Network has called on Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to respond to their request to meet to discuss orthopaedic surgeries at Temple Street Children's Hospital.
25 September 2023
The Director of the National Women's Council of Ireland has said it is "not a surprise" that a proposed referendum to replace the constitutional reference to women's duties in the home has been postponed.
25 September 2023
The three coalition party leaders, as well as the Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, will meet later today as preparations intensify for Budget 2024.
25 September 2023
The European Commission has urged Ireland to speed up the switching off of out-of-date copper wire networks for phone and broadband services.
25 September 2023
Sicilian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, captured in January after three decades on the run, has died in hospital in central Italy, local officials have confirmed.
25 September 2023
The average price of a three-bed semi-detached house nationally has breached €300,000 for the first time since 2007, a new survey reveals today.
25 September 2023
British prosecutors will decide whether to seek a retrial for Lucy Letby on a number of outstanding allegations.
25 September 2023
A new publicly-funded fertility treatment scheme will include the transfer and storage of all embryos arising from one cycle of IVF, the Health Service Executive has confirmed.
25 September 2023
The HSE's emergency department winter overcrowding plan is in doubt, after a private hospitals umbrella group said its members may not be able to provide help set to be sought by the public system.
25 September 2023
Union leaders and Hollywood studios reached a tentative agreement on Sunday to end the screenwriters' strike after nearly five months.
25 September 2023
Air quality in Ireland is generally good despite some concerning localised issues, according to a new report from the Environmental Protection Agency.
25 September 2023
The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has launched a two-week inspection campaign focusing on working at height in agricultural settings.
24 September 2023
Leona Maguire hailed the fighting spirit of her team-mates as Europe retained the Solheim Cup after a 14-14 draw with the United States at Finca Cortesin in Spain.
24 September 2023
French President Emmanuel Macron has said France is imminently to withdraw its ambassador from Niger, followed by its military contingent in the next months, in the wake of the coup in the west African country that ousted the pro-Paris president.
24 September 2023
A competitor has died following a collision during the Clare Stages Rally today, Motorsport Ireland has said.
24 September 2023
Minister for Children Roderic O'Gorman has said a proposed referendum to replace the constitutional reference to women's duties in the home will not take place this year.
24 September 2023
The HSE Chief Executive has said that springs used in complex spinal surgery on young children at Temple Street Children's Hospital were not medical devices or approved to a basic European CE standard.
24 September 2023
A man in his 20s has been arrested in connection to the crash in Bundoran, Co Donegal, in which a nine-year-old boy died.
24 September 2023
The first group of Nagorno-Karabakh refugees since Azerbaijan's lighting assault against the separatist region entered Armenia today, an AFP team at the border said.
24 September 2023
A NASA capsule has landed in the Utah desert after a seven-year voyage, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected.
24 September 2023