Tánaiste plays down fears of food and medical shortages on visit to ploughing championships

Noel Rock’s Bill seeks to outlaw event ticket trading at prices above original face value

Hundreds of match tickets advertised on Viagogo well in excess of face value of €150

For the fourth time in less than a decade, plans to impose rules on a hugely profitable sector have stalled

Changes proposed by Humphreys will not come into effect ahead of Christmas shopping period

RTÉ’s role as ‘primary custodian’ of symphonic music must be challenged

Department of Justice says it ‘fully complied’ with tribunal’s orders of discovery

Joan Burton says claims of what happened women at Gate Theatre ‘hardly actually believable’

Archaeologist says find at Cork site is of ‘exceptional significance’

Vintners are campaigning against law seeking to automatically ban all drink-drivers

Most artists subsist on extremely low incomes, usually dependent on several sources

Analysis: Eir plans may lead to legal challenge – and cause conflict between Ministers

Creative Ireland initiative to follow up last year’s successful Reflecting the Rising

Woodlands of Killarney National Park, a national treasure, facing a noxious threat

New three-year plan contains too many commitments and not enough priorities

Analysis: Much of the investment and many of targets can be found in previous documents

When it comes to preserving biodiversity, governments are all talk and no action. It will take more than the UN’s Cancún Declaration to reverse habitat loss and extinction

Environmental Protection Agency’s latest report makes for a very sobering read

Professors, solicitors and curators among appointees

Much-publicised initiative is being removed from the Department of Communications