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Minister Catherine Martin has today welcomed the BAI announcement of the allocation of €2.58m to the independent commercial radio sector. Minister Catherine Martin provided €2.5m to the BAI in December for this purpose...

Hails success of results based schemes...

Fund to support development of Ireland’s first National Hub Network...

The Minister of State for Overseas Development Aid and Diaspora, Colm Brophy, T.D., today announced over €21 million in Irish Aid funding to Trócaire for its development and humanitarian work overseas, as well as for public engagement and development education work in Ireland...

Ministers of State James Browne, Mary Butler and Frank Feighan attend the first meeting of the High Level Taskforce on mental health and addiction challenges of persons interacting with the criminal justice system...

The Department of Social Protection is aware of fraudulent phone calls and text messages claiming to be from the Department seeking personal information e.g. PPS number / Bank Account details...

Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine, Martin Heydon, T.D. chaired the inaugural meeting of the new Pig Roundtable today 28th of April...

The Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly TD, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien TD and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney TD, along with the HSE and a number of Government Departments and state agencies have continued to work to offer assistance to India in response to the worsening COVID-19 outbreak there...

Following the announcement by the First Minister of Northern Ireland, Arlene Foster MLA,  that she intends to step down from her roles as First Minister and DUP Leader, I want to wish Arlene the very best for the future...

A meeting of the advisory group of stakeholders on planning for the State Examinations 2021 was held online today, Wednesday 28 April...