For 1.2 billion people - nearly a fifth of the world's population - access to safe drinking water ...

The preliminary 4 billion euro seasonally adjusted trade surplus in June is Ireland's highest ever surplus.

Following international developments and a growing consensus among economists that some form of debt forgiveness for Ireland would ...

Mr John Kidd from the Irish Fire and Emergency Service Association warns of this crisis that faces the ...

Top R and D-investing companies based in the EU expect their global research and development (R and D) ...

Figures released by the CSO last week confirm that unemployment continues to rise, despite government actions to counter ...

Labour TD for Cork South-West, Mr Michael McCarthy, has called for a radical shake-up of the system whereby ...

The Great Western Greenway was opened recently by Minister Michael Ring TD, Minister of State at the Department ...

The Samaritans charity held a public exhibition this week to highlight the work that the confidential 24-hour helpline ...

This week the Ombudsman, Ms Emily O'Reilly, published her report, "Too Old to be Equal? - An Investigation ...

A wide-ranging new strategy aimed at ensuring that every child leaves school having mastered literacy and numeracy was ...

The Irish Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC) welcomed the recent ruling by the High Court that the Joint ...

Nessa Childers MEP recently welcomed EU plans to crack down on the growing synthetic drugs market, after a ...

The Minister for Small Business, Mr John Perry TD, has highlighted the importance of encouraging more women who ...

Speaking at the launch of JobBridge, the new National Internship Scheme last week, Joan Burton TD, the Minister ...

Young migrants feel their approach to communicating and presenting to employers can negatively impact on their employment chances

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Last Tuesday, the Minister for Justice confirmed that he will be conducting a major overhaul of the business ...

Dublin became one of just three cities worldwide last week to be shortlisted to become World Design Capital ...

Robinson and McGuinness welcome opening of 'Peace Bridge'

The European Commission (EC), European Central Bank (ECB), and International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued a joint statement on ...

A demographic report recently published by the European Commission provides the latest facts and figures that assess where ...

Each year, aspiring young filmmakers aged 18 and under battle it out to be named ‘Ireland's Young Filmmaker ...

Patents Office launched the Junior Inventor Awards for 2011. The Awards, which are now in their 4th year, ...

The European Commission has launched its annual call for proposals to be funded under the LIFE+ programme, the ...