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Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Charlie Flanagan TD, has announced €1.3 m in recent grants to support community organisations working in Northern Ireland and throughout the Border region, through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Reconciliation Fund...

Alan Kelly T.D., Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, and Minister of State, Ann Phelan, T.D, today (30 January, 2016) announced funding of €3.148 million in 2016 for 26 organisations involved in volunteering...

The 24 member companies of Geoscience Ireland have created 42 new jobs between them in the six months since 1 July 2015; that is according to GI’s twice yearly survey of its members...

Speaking today about the South East Foster Care issue, Kathleen Lynch, Minister for Primary Care, Social Care and Mental Health said that she believes serious consideration must be given before any decision is made about establishing a Commission of Inquiry to look at all aspects of what happened...

Mr. Alan Kelly, T.D., Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government today (29 January 2016) announced a total of €1.09 million in allocations from the Environment Fund under two environmental grant schemes in 2016...

The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys TD, has today (Friday) said that 340 heritage projects nationwide will share in a €2 million investment package as part of the Built Heritage Investment Scheme for 2016...

Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton T.D. today (Friday, 29th January, 2016) officially open the Department’s Intreo Centre in Blackhall Street, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath...

An Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD today, Friday, Jan 29th joined Ministers Michael Noonan and Jan O’Sullivan in Limerick to highlight the benefits of the Government’s capital investment programme, Building on Recovery, for the Mid West region. Ministers Alan Kelly and Tom Hayes also attended the event in Limerick City & County Council HQ...

Minister for Jobs Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton TD today (Friday) visited Irish education technology company, Shaw Academy to announce further job creation at its Dublin office. A hundred new positions are being created with support from the Department of Jobs through Enterprise Ireland...

Minister for Energy Alex White, TD, has published a draft framework document that outlines a process to identify potentially suitable land areas for the large-scale generation of onshore renewable electricity, including wind. The areas indicated in the document include land owned by state companies...