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The Minister for Transport, Tourism, and Sport, Shane Ross TD, today announced Government approval for new laws aimed at curbing excessive speeding to reduce the number of fatalities on the nation’s roads.

Minister of State for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O’Connor T.D. today, on World Access to Higher Education Day, launched the Action Plan to Promote Traveller Participation in Higher Education. The Minister was joined at the launch, held in TU Dublin, by several third level students and recent graduates from the Traveller community, who told their own stories of studying in universities and colleges around Ireland, and gave insights into the supports that are most useful to students...

Mr Michael Ring, TD, Minister for Rural and Community Development, today (Tuesday, 26 November) announced €39.2m funding for the 2020 Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP), the Government’s primary scheme targeted towards social inclusion intervention...

The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Shane Ross T.D., and the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Richard Bruton T.D. welcome the publication of the Report of the Low Emission Vehicle (LEV) Taskforce having presented the Report of Phase 2 to Government...

Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh T.D. today congratulated the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) on its 20 year anniversary since its establishment.

One of the primary measures planned by Ealaín na Gaeltachta in order to promote the language-based arts over the next three years to the end of the 2021/22 school year is to provide additional acquisition opportunities to young people in the Gaeltacht.

Minister for Health, Simon Harris TD, has today (Monday) met with the social media companies, Facebook, Twitter, and Google, to discuss the measures they are taking to combat anti-vaccination misinformation on social media platforms...

Annual Civil Defence Radiation Monitoring Exercise...

The Woodland Environmental Fund (WEF) launched by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine just over a year ago is going from strength to strength, as a growing number of businesses express their interest in participating in the initiative...

The Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh T.D. has today (Monday 25th November 2019) announced a €30million package for 405 schools around the country to carry out specialist improvements...