The Irish Times view on Ireland’s bathing water quality: no grounds for complacency
Local authorities manage and monitor bathing waters in their areas, and deserve credit for making a good record better
Creation of Executive needs weeks of work on NI protocol, Coveney says
Minister counters Sinn Féin claims election result brings Border poll much closer
Citizens’ Assembly asked to consider extending local authorities’ powers
Dublin council chief warns against merger of councils under directly elected mayor
DUP ‘can’t hold everybody to ransom’ after elections, says Michelle O’Neill
Sinn Féin deputy leader says there should not be a drawn-out process of negotiations
Proposed neutrality Bill would likely curtail Irish efforts on international peace, Coveney says
Bill proposed by People Before Profit seeks to insert military neutrality into Constitution
Human rights commissioner calls for national strategy on care
Kathleen Lynch says pandemic has reorientated our thinking on what is important in life
Careful wording needed for referendum on women’s ‘place’ in the home, Minister says
O’Gorman tells committee of ‘genuine risk’ that vote on removing refernce could be lost
Progress on gender equality wanted ‘urgently’
New Oireachtas committee hears recommendations to ‘force’ change quickly
Timing of Citizen’s Assembly on drugs shows Government ‘out of touch’, Dáil told
Minister of State says sequencing of debates does not imply ‘a hierarchy of importance’
Partition, armchair epidemiology and Joe Duffy: 2021’s top conversation killers
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Legal concerns raised about proposed law on assisted dying
Dying with Dignity Bill vulnerable to constitutional challenge, officials advise
Judge resigns from law reform body seven months into five-year term
Mr Justice Richard Humphreys was appointed in October
Eamon Ryan interview: ‘Climate action is where the jobs are going to come’
‘This turning point ... is the equivalent of that paper Whitaker wrote 60 years ago’
Permanent supports for home working must be put in place, engineers suggest
Think-tank says greener future possible if the country is willing to learn the lessons pandemic
Fine Gael TD calls for new State body to help lead economic recovery
Mothers returning to work from maternity leave now eligible for State’s coronavirus pandemic wage subsidy
Róisín Ingle: My sister Rachael dropped me at that London clinic in a black taxi
Today is the anniversary of the day 66.4% of us voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment
Better grades mean bigger salaries - just not for girls
In 2015 the overall gap in pay stood at 13.9%. It had risen to 14.4% in 2017. But why?
Number of men ‘looking after the home’ trebled in 10 years
Citizens’ Assembly meeting to discuss gender equality this weekend
Gender equality: Citizen’s Assembly moves to fulfil 1916 Proclamation aims
Public policy, gender roles in work and care and sharing of responsibilities to be debated
Men ‘delighted’ to be invited to Citizens’ Assembly on gender equality
Chairwoman says assembly is testament to gender equality being ‘back on the agenda’
Open letter began with ‘recurring theme’ around denial of rights in North
Brexit ‘changed everything’ and dialogue on reunification of Ireland now ‘centre stage’
Irish ‘spend over 30 hours a week’ doing unpaid care, housework
Report finds 45 per cent of women care for children and older adults compared to 29 per cent of men
Details of proposed church-state covenant expected at dialogue meeting
Religious control of schools likely to dominate discussions
Budget 2020 must lay foundations for low-carbon future
Ireland has the capacity to develop ambitious climate policy – what we need now is strong implementation
Report confirms acceleration of species loss and habitat deterioration
Study says 50 per cent of freshwaters are polluted, leading to decline in salmon stocks
Archbishop warns ‘secular agenda’ against ignoring diverse faiths
CofI’s Michael Jackson says public interest needs to give voice to things beyond number crunching
Climate change: Plotting an action plan for Ireland
Political bickering threatens to overshadow Oireachtas committee’s radical proposals
Climate action committee makes progress on decarbonisation
People Before Profit and Sinn Féin are resisting any increase in carbon tax
Bruton emphasises need for decarbonisation to defensive IFA
Minister urges ‘a change in the way farming has to think about itself’ at agm
RTÉ to make climate-change programming ‘a priority’
Oireachtas committee criticises broadcaster for low level of environmental coverage
The Irish Times view on carbon taxes: it’s time for leadership
Irish emissions are going in the wrong direction, and the cost of inaction now will be considerably greater in coming years
Varadkar seeks to avoid Macron’s mistakes on carbon tax
Government edging towards model that would see everyone get a cheque in the post
The year conservative, Catholic Ireland lost its mojo
The abortion referendum result was the ‘culmination of a quiet revolution in Ireland’
Irish scientist questions warnings on climate change
Prof Ray Bates says recent report ignored ‘important evidence’ reducing threat level
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