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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

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...

More than 1,500 primary children across the country are taking part in Department of Education and Skills (DES) week long English literacy summer camps. A further 1,000 children attended Campaí Samhraidh, DES funded Irish...

In response to the ongoing fighting in and around Tripoli, the Government has announced that it will contribute €100,000 to help deliver much needed medical supplies to some of the city’s main hospitals. Announcing the funding, the Tánaiste said that...

Research and Innovation Minister Seán Sherlock today announced Government funding of €15 million to be provided over the next 4 years for 79 research projects as part of Science Foundation Ireland’s 2011 Research Frontiers Programme....

Transport Minister Leo Varadkar today announced that following an EU public tendering process, contracts for scheduled air services on the Public Service Obligation (PSO) routes between Donegal and Dublin and Kerry and Dublin...

Enterprise Minister Richard Bruton today welcomed the latest external merchandise trade statistics, which were release today by the CSO. The preliminary €4.079 billion seasonally adjusted trade surplus in June is the highest ever surplus....

Transport Minister Leo Varadkar has today noted the latest official data on overseas travel from the Central Statistics Office, which has reported an increase of nearly 13% in overseas visits to Ireland for the first half of 2011....

I welcome what now appears to be the end of the Gaddafi dictatorship in Libya. I have previously made clear our view that Colonel Gaddafi and his family have no role in the future government of Libya, and he should now depart without further violence....

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is encouraging Leaving Certificate students planning to celebrate their results by travelling abroad to take a number of precautions to ensure their trip passes off safely....