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People on the picket line

Unions suspend next week’s strike action

Floral tributes outside the house in Waterford

‘Deep sense of sadness’ as Waterford prepares for funerals of arson victims

Gordon Flood and Nicola Fanning

Man shares footage of cardiac arrest in bid to encourage others to learn CPR

A child using a smartphone

Third of primary school children have no time restrictions online, charity says

Garda Graduation

Garda numbers hit all-time high as force reaches historic peak of 14,800

Person pulling a suitcase seen from legs down

Urban and more affluent areas have higher proportions of migrants – research

An Garda Síochána X account hacked

Garda regain control of official X accounts after crypto hack

Garda investigation after man’s body found in Co Cork

Floral tributes outside the scene of the house fire

Man and woman arrested in connection with Waterford house fire

Jack Chambers

Hope for progress on public sector talks ‘shortly’, Jack Chambers says

Industrial strike

Taoiseach hopes ‘behind-the-scenes work’ results in talks with unions

Dr Sara Burke

Committee hears calls for right to healthcare

Floral tributes outside a house

Drug-related intimidation must be confronted ‘head-on’, says Cullinane

An Garda Siochana X account hacked

An Garda Síochána asked to explain ‘extremely worrying’ social media breach

A man seen from behind walking inside data centre

Data centre energy use questioned amid AI summit

Social media stock

Report recommends legislation to limit predatory design features online

Ireland stock

Garda social media accounts taken over and posting about cryptocurrency
Social media accounts used by An Garda Síochána appear to have been taken over by an outside actor.
Cillian Sherlock, Press Association

A picket line at Mater Hospital

Government will face ‘test of sincerity’ over pay deal dispute comments

Sinead McCarville, senior housekeeper in the high dependency unit at the Mater Hospital, Dublin, takes part in a 24-hour strike outside the hospital over delays in agreeing a new public sector pay deal

Hospital staff speak of hardships facing health workers amid strike

Waterford City house fire deaths

No arrests as multiple searches took place in investigation into Waterford fire

Oireachtas staff staging a strike outside Leinster House

Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers staging 24-hour strike

Blurred figures of doctors and nurses walking in a hospital corridor

Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers to stage 24-hour strike

Patrick O'Donovan

Media minister taken to hospital after becoming unwell at EU event

Jennifer Murnane O’Connor and Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Gardai to make decision to refer personal drug users to health services

Taoiseach Micheál Martin

Taoiseach urges unions for further talks on eve of public sector strike

Three vans and a car were involved in the incident

Three in hospital following multi-vehicle collision in Co Sligo

Riad Bouchaker court case

‘In a way she died’ – Court hears from Parnell Square stabbing victims’ parents

Fórsa general secretary Kevin Callinan (centre) speaking at the union's headquarters in Dublin

Public sector strike to go ahead after bid for talks rejected
Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers had called on unions to postpone the strike.
Cillian Sherlock, Press Association

Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers

Minister asks public sector unions to attend mediation ahead of strike

Criminal Courts of Justice

George Gibney sentenced to 16 years and eight months over indecent assaults

Denis Donaldson murder

Trial date for man accused of murdering Denis Donaldson to be fixed next month

Robert Pether return

Engineer Robert Pether returns to Ireland following detention in Iraq

Minister of Foreign Affairs Helen McEntee

Engineer Robert Pether to return to Ireland following detention in Iraq

Irish consumers fuelling ‘fast tech’ trend leading to rise in discarded e-waste

Not too late to avoid strike action, insists Lawless

Garda Crime scene tape

Cyclist dies following road crash in Co Clare

Micheál Martin

Taoiseach says ‘public shouldn’t have to endure’ public sector strike action

Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration Jim O’Callaghan

Justice Minister criticises Law Society’s position as ‘contradictory’

RTE director general Kevin Bakhurst speaking to the media

RTÉ expresses confidence in Patrick O’Donovan as minister criticised in the Dáil

Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation protest – Dublin

Nurses hold lunchtime protest over public sector pay deal dispute

Jim O’Callaghan speaking to the media

Justice minister will ‘appraise’ legal aid reform data

Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly removes his hate while walking outside

‘I’d like to spend more’ – Garda Commissioner defends 20m euro overspend

Irish Budget 2027

Government must ‘put hands in pockets’ for culture card – Patrick O’Donovan

Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport Patrick O’Donovan

RTE ‘slow’ to implement changes – media minister

Members of the 69th Infantry Group who are deploying with the IMBAS

Defence Forces begins rollout of new multimillion-euro body armour system

Irish Budget 2027

Finance Minister says his government will never abolish USC

The Fine Gael team held a post-Budget canvass with commuters on Wednesday morning at Stephen's Green in Dublin

McEntee defends Budget spending plans despite sharp criticism from watchdog

Portlaoise Prison in County Laois

Two arrested after drone intercepted close to Portlaoise Prison

Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers and Finance Minister Simon Harris with the Budget 2027

Income tax changes and social welfare increases in Budget

Simon Harris outside Leinster House

Government using ‘high-risk’ receipts to fund tax and spending plans – watchdog

Dan Dooley, the chairman of the Rathcormac Men's Shed

Men’s sheds awaiting details of support funding

Farmer Michael O'Dwyer from Doora, Co Clare with cows in the background

Mixed reaction to Budget from farmers

Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers speaks to the media outside Leinster House, Dublin, following the announcement of Budget 2027

Government not able to ‘fund and deliver’ 100 euro culture card

University of Limerick graduate Eva McCormack holding a sign

Failure to abolish student contribution fee ‘devastating’ for families

Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers and Finance Minister Simon Harris on Budget day

Opposition parties accuse Government of ‘lack of honesty’ in Budget 2027

Paul Lenehan outside his restaurant

Minimum wage increase to ‘wipe out’ VAT savings according to a restaurant owner

Irish Budget 2027

Nothing in the Budget to bring me back to the market – former landlord

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