‘Education creates justice. If you just send rich people to university, and others have no access to education, it creates huge inequalities’

A man who repeatedly raped a woman he met on a dating website after giving a false name has been jailed for nine years.

Fathers who get to spend more time with their babies when they are infants have similar changes in brain structure as mothers experience during pregnancy. ...

Now comes the season of doing our accounts. Ireland is experiencing escalating demand from asylum applicants as worldwide migration rises. What has that to...

A Fianna Fáil Councillor at the centre of a storm over comments made after last Thursday’s stabbing attack and subsequent riots has now said he was referri...

Salman Jamal was a prominent news reporter in Somalia when he was nearly killed in a bomb attack. Now he shares a room in a Dublin centre

Gardaí believe victim, a man in his 50s who was hospitalised with non-life threatening injuries, was selected at random

2020 policy envisaged 3,500 applicants a year and predicted own-door accommodation by end of 2024 but O’Gorman says that is no longer possible

Gardai have launched a manhunt after a botched armed raid on a shop in Longford town this morning. It comes after a man entered a retail premises in the county town armed with a knife. Upon entering...

Principal questions whether relaxation of rules is ‘stealthy plan to kill Irish by slow death’

When the petite, English-Irish actress Sade (pronounced Shad-ay) Malone landed in Dublin Airport in early December to begin rehearsing and staging Sive — t...

Back in 2019, at the age of 21, Amanda Adé took a razor to her mid-length hair and shaved it all off. She wasn’t making a fashion statement. She wasn’t hav...

The Irish have long punched above their weight in many fields. We are, of course, a nation of saints and scholars, and still the only people in the world (...

Gardaí are issuing an appeal to walkers, runners, taxi drivers and delivery drivers after a serious assault of a woman took place last month in Sandycove, ...

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The four daughters of a woman who died just hours after giving birth in a Kerry hospital have had to leave their life in Ireland behind and move to the Uni...

Local people are being 'kept in the dark' say elected reps

Non-EU workers and students living in Ireland for three months or longer are required to register for an Irish Residence Permit card, which costs €300, much more than in other countries

A group of homeless refugees has pitched almost 50 tents in one of Dublin’s busiest areas in a bid for “safety”.

The family of double-murderer Yousef Palani were subjected to so much racial abuse after he was arrested that gardaí put a detailed security plan in place ...

Three asylum seekers from Palestine who arrived in Dublin Airport last Wednesday were taken by taxi to Co Mayo at a cost of €500 to the taxpayer, as govern...

An asylum seeker who took part in a people smuggling operation, bringing 12 Albanian people into the country illegally, has been jailed for five years.

As part of the #StrongerTogether initiative, activist Bulelani Mfaco spoke about the need to dismantle Ireland's Direct Provision system.

A mother of four who fraudulently claimed more than €100,000 in child welfare and single parent benefits has been jailed for two years.

I’m just back from Ukraine, where I got to see my husband Serhii for the first time in four months. I travelled alone because it’s still too dangerous to b...

The owners of The Grand in Fermoy have ceased trading with immediate effect

A MAN allegedly involved in a fatal road accident over 10 years ago was remanded in custody after his true identity was only discovered following the issuing of an international arrest warrant. The...

These are the first pictures of the pastor accusing of stealing €70,000 of church donations over an eight year period.

RTÉ News broadcaster Sharon Ní Bheoláin has said we should “actively support those in need” in these uncertain times.

Five men who were led to believe their friend had been assaulted have all been handed suspended prison sentences.

An asylum seeker who claimed to be fighting for Isis when he stabbed a Japanese man to death on a public street has been found not guilty of murder by reas...

Sexually transmitted infections have been around for as long as mankind but experts say patterns of human behaviour are changing now that sex is instantly available through dating apps

Minister of State says similar numbers of refugees from war could arrive this year as in 2022