Food crisis leaves one billion hungryTHE GLOBAL financial crisis cannot be used as an excuse for inaction on a food crisis that leaves almost one billion people hungry…Fri Oct 17 2008 - 01:00
Immigrants' groups critical of funding cutINTEGRATION: IMMIGRANT AND voluntary groups have strongly criticised the Government's decision to withdraw funding from the …Thu Oct 16 2008 - 01:00
Budget did not protect the vulnerable, says HealyCORI JUSTICE COMMISSION: CHILDREN AND the working poor were the big losers from a Budget that failed to adequately protect the…Thu Oct 16 2008 - 01:00
Budget 'will hit children and working poor'Children and the working poor were the big losers from a Budget that failed to adequately protect the vulnerable, it was claimed…Wed Oct 15 2008 - 01:00
Migrant bodies' funding slashedIMMIGRATION: THE STATE'S advisory body on racism and intercultural affairs is to have all its Government funding withdrawn, …Wed Oct 15 2008 - 01:00
More than 50 cases of trafficking into IrelandAT LEAST 50 foreign nationals have been trafficked into the Republic for forced labour in the past six years, according to new…Wed Oct 15 2008 - 01:00
Commissioner unreservedly accepts findings of reportsCOMMISSIONER'S APOLOGY: GARDA COMMISSIONER Factna Murphy has apologised to those who were found to have been mistreated by members…Wed Oct 8 2008 - 01:00
Warning on dangers of migrant segregationTHE CLUSTERING of migrants in some areas may develop into segregation unless social integration is made a key aim of housing …Wed Oct 8 2008 - 01:00
Without our intervention abuses would still be going on, say politiciansREACTION: LABOUR TD Brendan Howlin and Fine Gael MEP Jim Higgins reacted to the tribunal's criticism of their actions by insisting…Wed Oct 8 2008 - 01:00
Nigerian priest dealt with legally, Ahern saysMINISTER FOR Justice Dermot Ahern has insisted that gardaí and prison officers fully complied with "all the necessary legal and…Sat Oct 4 2008 - 01:00
'Isolated error' led to 3-year wait by SomalisMINISTER FOR Justice Dermot Ahern has said the case of a Somali woman whose husband and three children were needlessly left in…Fri Oct 3 2008 - 01:00
Migrant education hypocrisy criticised by HayesFINE GAEL education spokesman Brian Hayes has accused the Government of "unbelievable hypocrisy" for apparently changing its …Fri Oct 3 2008 - 01:00
Immersion classes in 20% of schoolsMORE THAN one in five primary and secondary schools use some form of immersion classes to teach English or Irish to newly-arrived…Thu Oct 2 2008 - 01:00
Government action on social integration criticisedTHE CHAIRWOMAN of the National Action Plan Against Racism has sharply criticised the pace of Government efforts on social integration…Thu Oct 2 2008 - 01:00
Diversity does not damage learning, claims LenihanSOME PARENTS are removing their children from schools with large numbers of foreign-national pupils, despite evidence that diversity…Thu Oct 2 2008 - 01:00
Bishop asks Nigerian emigrants to go homeNIGERIANS LIVING in Ireland should consider returning home with newly acquired skills and experience in order to stem the "brain…Wed Oct 1 2008 - 01:00
Christian ideology ignored - forumA MEDIA preoccupation with sensationalist critics of religion drowns out the many intellectual voices who claim a significant…Tue Sep 30 2008 - 01:00
Gardaí identify body of stab victimGARDAÍ HAVE identified the murder victim whose body was found with stab wounds near Palmerstown in west Dublin last week.Tue Sep 30 2008 - 01:00
Bishop defends right to Catholic educationREDUCING THE debate over school patronage to a question of churches "clinging to power" trivialises what is at stake, Bishop …Sat Sep 27 2008 - 01:00
Ireland in 16th place on least corrupt rankingIRELAND HAS been ranked as the 16th least corrupt country in a global survey of perceived corruption levels, a rise of one place…Wed Sep 24 2008 - 01:00
No directive on hijabs in classroom to be issuedTHE GOVERNMENT has decided not to issue a directive to schools on the wearing of the Islamic headscarf in classrooms, Minister…Wed Sep 24 2008 - 01:00
Irish observer group will go to GeorgiaIRELAND IS to contribute four people to a 300-member EU observer group being deployed to Georgia next week.Tue Sep 23 2008 - 01:00
Leadership races won't deter peace, Abbas tells MartinMIDDLE EAST: UNCERTAINTY CAUSED by leadership changes in Israel and the United States will not deter efforts to further the …Tue Sep 23 2008 - 01:00
Call for more scrutiny of immigration officersREPORTS OF aggressive treatment of tourists by gardaí at Dublin airport show the need for greater scrutiny of immigration officers…Tue Sep 23 2008 - 01:00
Concern over airport treatment of touristTOURISM OFFICIALS expressed concern to the Department of Arts and Tourism earlier this year about the behaviour of immigration…Mon Sep 22 2008 - 01:00
Martin meets Palestinian presidentUncertainty caused by leadership changes in Israel and the United States should not derail efforts to build on progress in the…Mon Sep 22 2008 - 01:00
Press Ombudsman gets 200 complaintsALMOST 200 complaints were made to the Press Ombudsman in the office's first six months in operation, new figures show.Sat Sep 20 2008 - 01:00
Over 30% of TV3 output to be home-producedTV3's HOME-PRODUCED programming will rise to more than 30 per cent of its total output under the terms of a new service contract…Sat Sep 20 2008 - 01:00
Charity urges State to honour social promisesTHE SOCIETY of St Vincent de Paul has expressed concern that the social commitments contained in the deal struck by the social…Fri Sep 19 2008 - 01:00
Politicians back call for arms trade treatyPOLITICIANS FROM all the main parties have given their support to a global campaign to ban the sale of arms to conflict zones…Thu Sep 18 2008 - 01:00
Only 24% of drug cases convictedJUST 24 PER CENT of drug driving incidents detected in 2006 led to convictions, and the failure to successfully prosecute in …Wed Sep 17 2008 - 01:00
Politicians support Amnesty call for arms banPoliticians from all the main parties have given their support to a global campaign to ban the sale of arms to conflict zones…Wed Sep 17 2008 - 01:00
Major study on attitudes to marriage and divorceATTITUDES TO marriage, parenting and divorce will be among the subjects of a major new research project that aims to capture …Wed Sep 17 2008 - 01:00
Refugee's husband killed 'because he was journalist'IRAQ: IN JANUARY 2004, Shahlaa Hishmat found herself in the presenter's chair at Baghdad's Sumer FM, one of the slew of radio…Sat Sep 13 2008 - 01:00
Black immigrants more likely to be joblessBLACK IMMIGRANTS are nine times more likely than white Irish nationals to be unemployed, a new survey has found.Thu Sep 11 2008 - 01:00
Tighter immigration policy favoured by 66% - pollALMOST TWO-THIRDS of adults in the State believe immigration policy should be made more restrictive given the worsening economic…Wed Sep 10 2008 - 01:00
Black immigrants nine times more likely to be unemployedBlack immigrants are nine times more likely than white Irish nationals to be unemployed, a new survey has found.Wed Sep 10 2008 - 01:00
'No threat' to adoptions of Vietnamese childrenTHERE ARE no plans to suspend adoptions from Vietnam to the Republic, despite the indefinite suspension of adoptions from the…Tue Sep 9 2008 - 01:00
IMO warns against online self-diagnosisTHE PRESIDENT of the Irish Medical Organisation has reported a "considerable increase" in the number of patients researching …Tue Sep 9 2008 - 01:00
'We're so proud of him getting a bronze'DARREN SUTHERLAND: NOT LONG after the final bell rang out in the Workers' Gymnasium in Beijing and Darren Sutherland succumbed…Sat Aug 23 2008 - 01:00
Slowdown not causing more Irish people to move to UKSOME 2,500 Irish people registered to work or access benefits in the UK in the first three months of the year, a figure broadly…Sat Aug 23 2008 - 01:00
50% fee rise criticised by immigrant groupsIMMIGRANT AND education groups have criticised a decision to raise by 50 per cent the cost of registering with border and immigration…Sat Aug 23 2008 - 01:00
UN to fly group of refugees to IrelandA GROUP of Tanzania-based refugees are to be flown to Ireland over the next two months under a UN resettlement programme, the…Fri Aug 22 2008 - 01:00
Immigrant groups criticise hike in registration feeImmigrant and education groups have criticised a Garda decision to raise by 50 per cent the cost of registering with the border…Fri Aug 22 2008 - 01:00
Asylum seekers end protestA GROUP of asylum seekers who began refusing food on Monday over conditions at their accommodation centre in Co Laois has called…Wed Aug 20 2008 - 01:00
Human rights body queries merger proposalTHE PRESIDENT of the Human Rights Commission has questioned how any major savings could be made by merging various equality bodies…Tue Aug 19 2008 - 01:00
Three severely burned in Smithfield block fireTWO MEN and a woman were in a serious condition in hospital yesterday after being pulled from a fire in an underground car park…Mon Aug 18 2008 - 01:00
Children's alliance urges referendum on rightsREFERENDUM FATIGUE after the Lisbon Treaty defeat should not be allowed to override the compelling need for a constitutional …Sat Aug 16 2008 - 01:00
Capital writing draws visitorsLITERARY DUBLIN: DUBLIN HAS BEEN ranked fourth in a list of the world's best literary-holiday destinations by the travel website…Sat Aug 16 2008 - 01:00
Death of man not suspicious - policePOLICE IN Australia are not treating the death of a Co Armagh man whose body was found in a river last weekend as suspicious.Fri Aug 8 2008 - 01:00