The State is currently accommodating over 19,000 International Protection seekers and 54,000 Ukrainian refugees

Homeless services are “bursting at the seams” due to an increase in the number of asylum seekers. 

The Exchequer pulled in €381m in VAT from electricity last year – a 40% per cent increase on the previous year.

At the end of the last year, there were 251,000 people on the waiting list

The HSE has spent €1.7 million on advertising costs for winter vaccinations since October, despite just 31 per cent of the eligible population having their second Covid-19 booster

Environmentalists and rural politicians alike have expressed concern over the damage plantation forestry could do to Ireland's natural habitats.

A State legal strategy for dealing with people who were overcharged for nursing home care was kept among a tight-knit group - Shortall.

A new group is to consider how the health service can deal with the rising cost of claims against it. 

Ireland has been ranked 77 points out of 100 - putting us in 10th place out of 180 countries

Leo Varadkar signed off on secret payouts for families who were overcharged for nursing home care, Department of Health documents show.

Overall, rents jumped by 13.7 per cent in Ireland last year

The former Taoiseach was speaking at a party event where he said Fianna Fail must not lose its traditional Republican ethos

"The current description of 'typical' cardiac symptoms is based primarily on the experience of white, middle-aged men"

The new proposal for a programme called “Gradam an Uachtaráin” (the President’s Award) will be discussed in the Seanad on Wednesday.

The 63-year-old Crazy World hitmaker had been receiving palliative care since December after he spent six months in the Beaumont Hospital.