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translation services
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severe heather warning
Met Éireann warned colleagues that storms couldn't share names with Áras hopefuls
2 Oct 2025
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Overcrowding
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21 Sep 2025
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12 Aug 2025
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Demand on services
Tusla warns it will blow its budget by almost €68 million this year
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Roscommon
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11 Jul 2025
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21 May 2025
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The Taxman
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3 Apr 2025
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fuel smugglers
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16 Mar 2025
10.7k
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Office of Public Works
ESB tried to charge OPW an extra €57,000 on controversial €490,000 boundary wall project
10 Mar 2025
30.7k
Recruitment
Some 900 members of the Defence Forces left after less than five years of service since 2020
16 Feb 2025
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Correspondence
'Begrudgers and whiners': Mixed response in letters to Simon Harris after Kanturk exchange
5 Feb 2025
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Thornton Hall
Irish Prison Service spent over €100,000 in three years maintaining empty 'super prison' site
2 Feb 2025
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Holles Street
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12 Jan 2025
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Almost 100 people have crashed during their driving test in the last two years
18 Dec 2024
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Fit the Bill
Only a fraction of fines doled out by the Data Protection Commission have been paid
14 Dec 2024
9.1k
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lobbying standards
SIPO asked not to be in charge of enforcing lobbying standards for former public servants
11 Dec 2024
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L plates
Crackdown on long-held provisional licenses delayed over fears of longer test waiting lists
24 Sep 2024
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OPW
New Leinster House bicycle shed cost €335,000 due to 'sensitive location'
1 Sep 2024
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Dirty looks
'Consistent shouting': More than ten complaints a month made to RSA about driving instructors
25 Aug 2024
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Impersonation
Six cases of suspected fraudsters attempting to take driving tests in recent years - RSA
19 Jun 2024
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bogus
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20 Dec 2023
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21 Aug 2023
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CLIMATE CRISIS
Met Éireann told forecasters that Ireland needs to prepare for more extreme weather
15 Aug 2023
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Defence Forces
Air Corps plane on flight from Dublin made emergency landing after losing engine power
14 May 2023
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UCD
Tweets about 'thousands' of books being trashed caused a bitter row at UCD
23 Jan 2023
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Ryanair
Ryanair accused daa of 'incompetence' and 'poor management' over summer travel chaos
31 Oct 2022
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Public Transport
Downward trend of anti-social behaviour on public transport, says report
15 May 2022
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Wicklow
Coastal erosion and cost of repairs endangers Bray cliff walk
17 Apr 2022
42.6k
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Passports
'Pent-up demand' could see a record 1.75m passport applications to process next year
6 Dec 2021
27.5k
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Delays
One-third of ambulance delays lasting more than one hour experienced in Wexford, Cork and Kerry
5 Dec 2021
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Misinformation
The HSE has reported more than 1,000 Covid-19 misinformation posts on social media
17 Sep 2021
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INTERNAL AUDIT
Over €123,000 paid out incorrectly in 'on-call' allowances to Courts Service staff
19 Jul 2021
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Ceann Comhairle
Rolex watch stored in safe at Department of Taoiseach despite requests to sell it for charity
9 Mar 2021
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Stephen Donnelly
Health Minister warned of staff shortages by HSE in pre-Christmas message
10 Feb 2021
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Info hub
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28 Dec 2020
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Closed Gates
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7 Dec 2020
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