Greatest effect would be for women who, for various complex reasons, seek an abortion close to the end of their first trimester

Draft policy paper written by Barry Andrews with assistance of artificial intelligence

Support of main Opposition parties and some Independents expected to secure the 87 votes needed for measure to advance

Little explanation of Coalition support for Opposition’s bid to remove key clause from draft law Harris said ‘has to count for something’

Housing infrastructure fund selected projects which Minister described as ‘shovel-ready’

Register for Airbnb-style lets being created with view to force homes out of holiday market and in to private rental sector

More than 80 projects across most local authority areas will ‘directly’ lead to 86,000 new homes, Government claims

Mothers and medical professionals share their views as differences between public and private maternity care in the State are brought into sharp focus

HSE has said new hubs, designed to reduce waiting times in acute hospitals, were for public patients only

State agency suggests stricter age verification for online porn, similar to a law enacted in the UK in 2025

State’s busiest maternity hospital backed down in dispute over private care

Former basketball coach and serial child sex abuser was given ‘favourable treatment’ when crimes came to light

Serious dereliction of duty by senior Garda officers when they learned Kenneally sexually abused a boy in the late 1980s, report finds

Health board also criticised for failing to follow through on abuse complaints by teenage boy in timely manner

Maternity hospital’s board to ‘bring its arrangements into line with Government policy’