There are 732 vacant posts out of 2,082 roles for professionals providing a range of services for children with disabilities.

Explosions rocked Kyiv this morning, a day after a flurry of missiles struck targets across Ukraine and Russian troops "fully occupied" the key industrial hub of Severodonetsk.

The Government is to pass a new law that will allow it to screen investments from non-EU countries for the first time.

Bono has revealed that he has a half-brother, whom he only learnt about when he himself was an adult.

Holiday-makers may be tempted to buy fake designer goods on their trip abroad this summer – but it's never a good idea, according to the European Consumer Centres Network.

Leaders of the Group of Seven rich nations will be under pressure to stick to climate pledges in Bavaria from today, as Russia's energy cuts trigger a dash back to planet-heating fossil fuels.

Abortion rights defenders fanned out across America yesterday for a second day of protest against the Supreme Court's thunderbolt ruling, as state after conservative state moved swiftly to ban the procedure.

The Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, is getting more and more blunt about political prevarication surrounding climate action.

The question that remains after the latest week of upheaval in the Conservative party is - How long can this go on?

As conservative US states rush to enact abortion bans following the Supreme Court's bombshell decision, the fight over reproductive rights in America is poised to shift to a new battleground: abortion-inducing pills.

Teachers and principals have criticised the Government for naming four schools which the Department of Education claims are not engaging on providing spaces for children with special needs.

The US Supreme Court's historic end to nationwide abortion rights yesterday drew unusual criticism from some of America's closest allies and bucks a global trend to more liberal reproductive rights.

Norway's domestic intelligence service PST, which is responsible for counter-terrorism, has said that it is treating a deadly overnight shooting near a gay bar in Oslo as "an act of Islamist terrorism".

The annual Dublin Pride parade has taken place in the capital for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic.

They are a unique piece of natural engineering but sand dunes are under threat and World Sand Dunes Day aims to highlight their importance and the need to protect them.

Billionaire Denis O'Brien has paid a €420,000 settlement to the Houses of the Oireachtas to cover the costs of legal fees after the organisation defended itself against an action taken by the businessman.

The latest Red C poll for the Business Post suggests that Sinn Féin has held its position as the most popular party among those surveyed.

After six months of crisis, the forces that threatened to tear the country apart, tore the country apart.

Ukraine's Sievierodonetsk was "fully occupied" by the Russian army, its mayor has said, after weeks of fighting over the key eastern city.