Doubts persist at factory in salmonella inquiry

Food safety chiefs believe there may be a second source of the bug

Ireland locates offshore carbon storage sites

My Week: Gerald Fleming

A summer that has plunged me right into the spotlight

Think Tank: Renewables backed by nuclear is energy key

Instead of pitting wind against uranium, harnassing both could provide the powerful mix of energy Ireland needs

Briefing: Culling Quangos

The government is intending to save money by killing off quangos, including merging all of the republic’s equality bodies into one

Advertiser puts spoke in bikes scheme

‘In-your-face’ billboards on Dublin’s streets come under fire

TG4 to screen Cecelia Ahern's sitcom

Samantha Who?, a hit in the US, is to be seen in Ireland despite RTE snub

National pay deal unlikely, says Ibec

The government will try to re-open contacts with employers and trade unions but relations between the two has worsened

Floods bring Ireland to standstill

Vast sections of the country were under water after weathermen report that a month’s rain fell in one day

Immigrants send €1.5bn euros back home

Foreign workers send more of earnings to homeland than previously thought

Tributes pour in following the death of Ronnie Drew

Taoiseach leads tributes to the famous singer

Sponsors fail to check in to Failte Towers

Charities represented in RTE’s reality TV series lose out after no backer found

Tax write-offs proposed to fund Irish universities

Progressive Democrats say that tax relief for personal and corporate donations will broaden funding base and could create US-style endowment culture

Woody Allen eyes Ireland as film setting

The director says financial backing would bring him from America to shoot his next movie

Designer Costelloe blasts Rose of Tralee racists

To show solidarity with Belinda Brown, a mixed-race contestant who has suffered racist abuse, Costello has given her a dress to wear for the contest

Alliance and DUP: Stormont devolution talks

The Northern Ireland Office looks sets to be subsumed into the Ministry of Justice after cross-party talks in September

School principals body rues teacher shortage

The government’s efforts to increase the number of PhD students has resulted in fewer graduates becoming teachers, the National Association of...

Is Ireland out of its depth on floods?

Questions asked about flood defences as Dublin suffers record rains

Historians say Ulster no model for Mid-East

It's not always good to talk to terrorists, say Cambridge academics

Paul Anthony McDermott: Are we now blind to our own racism?

If people had laughed at an African like they did at an Englishman racially abused at work, there would have been outrage