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The National Co-ordination Group for Severe Weather Emergencies met to assess the current weather forecast and flood threats. The Group will meet again in the afternoon to review the situation...

The Waterford based Irish Coast Guard Helicopter R117 has successfully completed the medical evacuation of a crewman from a Swedish registered container vessel MV Atlantic Cartier approximately one hundred miles west of the Fastnet Rock...

Minister for Agriculture, Food and Marine Simon Coveney TD this evening concluded his weeklong trade mission to West Africa. Commenting on the trip the Minister said 'with a population of over 200million, these markets provide a huge opportunity for...

The Minister for Business and Employment, Ged Nash TD, is encouraging those with an interest in the National Minimum Wage to make submissions to the Low Pay...

In his speech, the Minister reflected on the upsurge in emigration that came with the economic crisis which saw so many people of talent and energy leave these shores and emphasised that the Government wants our emigrants to be able to come back to avail of the opportunities that are now being created here at home.

Minister of State for Tourism and Sport Michael Ring has today (Thursday) congratulated the Ireland Women’s Cricket Team on securing qualification to the T20 World Cup in India next year by beating Scotland in the semi-final of the T20 World Cup qualifier this morning...

British solicitor and human rights activist Gareth Peirce, Fr. Brendan McBride of the Irish Immigration and Pastoral Center in San Francisco and businessman and Chair of Concern Worldwide Tom Moran were amongst those honoured with the Presidential Distinguished Service Award for...

The Minister of State for Gaeltacht Affairs, Joe McHugh T.D., has welcomed today’s agreement by the Council of the European Union to make a Regulation that sets out an incremental increase in the categories of EU legislation...

The Taoiseach, Mr. Enda Kenny T.D., and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin T.D., today (3rd December 2015) hosted the inaugural Civil Service Excellence and Innovation Awards...

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Simon Coveney T.D. today continued his West Africa Trade Mission by visiting Ghana. The Minister attended promotion...