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Ireland has built thousands of student rooms since its first accommodation strategy, yet enrolment, construction costs and the wider housing shortage have kept demand…
Read articleThe Charities Regulator received 681 concerns in 2025, sharply up from the previous year. Yet the longer trend, the nature of the reports and…
Read articleAlmost 1.9 million people say they can speak Irish, yet fewer than 72,000 use it daily outside education. Ireland now has a statutory recruitment…
Read articleIreland has near-record employment and rising wages, yet Irish citizens have recorded net outward migration for five consecutive years. Housing costs, career opportunities and…
Read articleNo decision has been made, but a possible alcohol excise reduction has entered the Budget 2027 debate as Ireland confronts a 25.6% decline in…
Read articleIreland has 25.6% fewer publican licences than it did twenty years ago, with the decline overwhelmingly concentrated outside Dublin. Falling alcohol consumption, changing social…
Read articleDepaul supported 1,456 families in 2025, 28% more than a year earlier, while official figures for the Republic show 5,659 children living in emergency…
Read articleCyberSafeKids’ latest research finds underage access to major platforms essentially unchanged since new protections took effect in 2025, sharpening questions about enforcement, reliable age…
Read articleNew HSE figures show more than 284,000 people waiting for initial primary and community-care appointments, including 120,640 children. Combined with rising hospital queues, severe…
Read articleAlmost 991,000 public-hospital waiting-list positions were recorded at the end of July 2026, dominated by first outpatient consultations. Long waits have fallen substantially since…
Read articleGerman Shepherds have faced special public-control rules in Ireland since 1991. More than three decades later, hospital data and behavioural research show a considerably…
Read articleFrom barbecue and street art to Irish heritage, literature, food, traditional music and the Rose of Tralee, the period from 13 to 27 August…
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