Nerina Pallot had to negotiate blokey media and music worlds early in her career. Now, with a lot more creative control, the singer-songwriter sets her own course ...

A resident of Enniskeane in west Cork, Harrington grew up in Cork city and studied to be a teacher in Limerick. In 1995 he became principal of a primary school in Clonakilty, Scoil na mBuachaillí, ...

Following her dad’s death by suicide in January, Judy Bobbett dived into her grief, attending HUGG Suicide Bereavement Support sessions. “When I think back, I walked in mid-January, two weeks after he ...

Just 12 properties were available to rent within any of the housing assistance payment (HAP) scheme limits in September, ...

Ireland continues to require large numbers of workers from non-European Economic Area (EAA) countries to address labour shortages, but it struggles to retain many of them, according to Economic and ...

Sir, – Let’s not rehearse the arguments about a valued organisation’s recent short video on a social issue. It is now morphing into something much bigger: the independence of civil society to act and ...

In any discussion on innovative solutions to the housing crisis, you get used to people citing some other city or state, typically a Scandinavian one, as the model for how to deliver housing and other ...

My son’s father and I never married. He has never paid maintenance for him. A few years ago there was a disagreement between them and unfortunately his father hasn’t had any contact with him for about ...

Derek Clarke should have travelled with his father, William Clarke, from their Castlederg, Co Tyrone, home to Pettigo, Co Donegal, to deliver potatoes on a weekend in the middle of August 1980. “He ...

Ryanair is warning the Irish Airline Pilots’ Association (Ialpa) and other unions that have yet to sign new pay deals that they risk possible salary freezes if they do not reach an agreement with the ...

Sir, – We are told by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) that the public service pay negotiations are at a standstill and the gap between the Government and the unions is too great. This charade ...

A family at the centre of a local authority investigation into a controversial 4.5m-high memorial recently erected in Sligo Cemetery has said it was their late son’s wishes to have “a big, high ...