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Homeless children twice as likely to need emergency hospitalisation Obesity, scabies, scalds and STDs higher among marginalised, paediatrician says about 3 hours ago Olivia Kelly Dublin Editor Listen now 2:14 Temple Street Children’s University Hospital in Dublin: Some families are using its emergency department as a primary care service. File photograph: Eric Luke Your Web Browser may be out of date. If you are using Internet Explorer 9, 10 or 11 our Audio player will not work properl...

People across UK observe minute’s silence as funeral takes place in Windsor Castle

  Charlie Whisker, who has died at the age of 71 in the Fern Dean nursing home in Blackrock, was one of Ireland’s most highly regarded painters whose work is in the collections of the Arts Council, AIB and the Ulster Museum and in the private collections of U2 members, Steven Soderberg, John Boorman, Paul McGuinness and Henry Mountcharles. He had solo exhibitions in the Kerlin, Solomon and the Hendricks galleries in Dublin and the On the Wall Gallery in Belfast. His work, known for its dreamlike, often nightmarish, enigmatic quality and occasionally stark graphic effects, was deeply per...

Brian Hanley 32 min read During July 1921 Count George Noble Plunkett, Dáil minister for foreign affairs, wrote a long letter to Éamon de Valera. In it Plunkett warned the Sinn Féin leader that republicans should be wary of too close a relationship with ‘the Jews’. Across Europe, Plunkett asserted, Jews had been a negative influence, because (1) they are, and will remain, aliens, in most countries; (2) their codes of honour and morals are not Christian; (3...

“Everything my party has been doing, I have been doing and the Government has been doing since this awful disease arrived into Ireland has been about how we try to save lives. And to make an indication [sic] that that we don’t appreciate...” Unflappable Paschal was malfunctioning live on the radio. Gavin got a fright. We all did. The Minister for Health did a U-turn at lunchtime and said the footless childer of Ireland can be measured for their shoes after all “My apologies if that was how it... eh... I just simply made the point that it was regarded as essential by the...