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Taoiseach Enda Kenny today launched the inaugural Blue September Ireland. Blue September is a growing global initiative that encourages men to be more aware of their health and more pro-active in protecting themselves against preventable and treatable diseases...

Environment Minister Phil Hogan today announced the key dates for the forthcoming Presidential Election. Last day for receipt of nominations...

Social Protection Minister Joan Burton today outlined savings of almost €345m which has been achieved across the Department’s schemes through fraud and control measures. In the first seven months of the year, Department officials reviewed some...

The head of the Credit Review Office, John Trethowan, today published the 5th quarterly report of the body. Speaking in the report, Mr Trethowan said...

During a visit to the Timoleague Agricultural Catchment area in Co. Cork today, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD, launched a major 3-day international conference entitled ‘Catchment Science 2011’, which will take place at the Mansion House in Dublin from 14 and 16 September 2011...

Education Minister Ruairí Quinn today announced a range of measures he is seeking from education book publishers to reduce the costs of school books for parents. Minister Quinn said that he was eager to implement his proposals...

As hundreds of thousands of students prepare to go back to school, the Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn, T.D., today announced a range of measures he is seeking from education book publishers to reduce the costs of school books for parents...

Social Protection Minister Joan Burton today outlined supports of €542m available under the Department’s Mortgage Interest and Rent Supplement Schemes in 2011. The Mortgage Interest Supplement Scheme

Simon Coveney TD, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine today officially opened the annual Limerick show at Limerick Racecourse, Patrickswell, Co. Limerick.Opening the show, which is the largest in Munster he congratulated the committee and all...

The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Gilmore T.D., has expressed his utter condemnation and dismay at the bomb attack earlier today on the Headquarters of the United Nations in Nigeria in which at least 16...