News from Dundalk

Tánaiste Simon Harris will hold talks with the Lebanese Foreign Affairs and Defence Ministers in Beirut to raise the case of the Irish UN peacekeeper, Private Seán Rooney, who was shot dead in December 2022.

26 March 2025

Members of the Psychiatric Nurses Association are beginning industrial action in a dispute over staffing numbers.

26 March 2025

The Government's response to a call in the Seanad for a public inquiry into St John Ambulance Ireland (SJAI), has been described by one abuse survivor as "a bureaucratic checklist".

25 March 2025

A married father of two from Co Sligo will serve three years and six months in prison for the possession of child sexual abuse material, referred to in law as child pornography, attempted production of child pornography and attempted sexual exploitation of a child.

25 March 2025

The United States is exerting "unacceptable pressure" on Greenland, Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said, ahead of an unsolicited visit by a high-profile US delegation to the semi-autonomous Danish territory this week.

25 March 2025

The Minister for Environment has accepted more work needs to be done to improve take-up of a low-cost loan scheme which was heralded as an environmental 'game-changer' by government prior to its launch early last year.

25 March 2025

After a day of confusion, contradiction and just a hint of chaos, one moment made it crystal clear where the Dáil speaking rights row is likely to go next - and, just as importantly, who is now firmly in the political firing line, writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith.

25 March 2025

13,540 unqualified individuals were employed to teach in Irish schools in 2024, according to new Department of Education figures obtained by TG4's 7LÁ programme.

25 March 2025

A Tullamore woman whose children were groomed and sexually abused by her former partner has spoken out to warn other parents about what her family has been through.

25 March 2025

The Central Statistics Office has published a survey detailing the long-term social impacts of the pandemic experience and the restrictions associated with Covid-19 five years on.

25 March 2025

There have been many days in the Dáil when the rows were ferocious but what happened today will stand out, writes Political Coverage Editor Joe Mag Raollaigh.

25 March 2025

Spain's leftist government has unveiled a draft bill that would criminalise the use of artificial intelligence to generate sexually explicit video images of a person's face or body without their consent.

25 March 2025

At least 23 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza, local health officials have said, as the Israeli military expanded evacuation orders to tens of thousands of residents across the enclave.

25 March 2025

The vast majority of public spending on homelessness continues to be directed toward emergency accommodation, with little investment in prevention and long-term solutions, according to a report from Focus Ireland and Trinity College Dublin.

25 March 2025

Bank of Ireland has been ordered to pay €40,000 from teacher Enoch Burke's bank account into a Courts Service account within seven days.

25 March 2025

Former rugby star Brian O'Driscoll and fitness coach Caroline O'Mahony were the two social media influencers served with compliance notices by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission for breaching consumer law by failing to disclose the commercial nature of their social media posts.

25 March 2025

The Trump administration has sought to contain the fallout after a magazine journalist disclosed he had been inadvertently included in a secret group discussion of highly sensitive war plans, while Democrats called on top officials to resign over the security incident.

25 March 2025

Dublin City Council says illegal dumping and a significant increase in 'scavenging' at clothing banks has been leaving Bring Banks in the capital in 'disarray'.

25 March 2025

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said a truce with Russia covering the Black Sea and energy infrastructure is effective immediately and that he would seek more weapons and sanctions on Russia from US President Donald Trump if Moscow broke the deals.

25 March 2025

The Dáil has passed changes to speaking time arrangements in the chamber amid chaotic scenes in which Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy said deputies were "making a holy show of themselves".

25 March 2025