Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers has said that negotiations on a new public sector pay deal are “very intensive” after eight days of talks at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC),...

Irish households are being warned that more energy price increases could follow this winter, as wholesale electricity and gas costs climb again. Nearly every major supplier has already raised prices...

ESB Networks has warned Irish officials that a new European law designed to boost the continent’s manufacturing industry could make it harder to build the electricity grid, and so worsen...

The European Union will introduce a €2 handling fee on packages arriving from outside the 27-nation bloc from November 1, in a move designed to curb the flood of low-cost...

More than 70,100 people either did not wait to be seen, or left before completing their treatment, in Ireland’s emergency departments (EDs) during the first seven months of this year,...

Met Éireann has issued two Status Orange rain warnings covering six counties, as Storm Austen, the first named storm of the 2026/27 season, is set to hit Ireland on Thursday...

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu says targeted curfews imposed in Paris and other cities helped bring a calm night to France on Monday, after several days of protests that turned...

Any new public sector pay deal will have to include productivity measures, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said, as formal talks with trade unions open at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC)...

Revenue is looking at ways to cut back on posting letters to taxpayers and to make more use of “robotics” and artificial intelligence (AI) to deal with queries. The tax...

There are cautious hopes that Ireland’s public sector pay dispute can be settled, after the Government said pay could be the first item in talks with unions, one day after...