The Passport Office will now allow children's passports to be renewed online as part of a range of new measures

29.11.2018

The expanded service means that all Irish citizens can now renew their passports online 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from anywhere in the world. The cost of renewing passports online is €5 cheaper, with a turnaround time of ten working days for all online applications, excluding postage. People renewing their passports online […]

Read More

Donegal hotel earmarked for asylum seekers set on fire

27.11.2018

A Donegal hotel earmarked to welcome more than 100 asylum seekers was set on fire in the early hours of Sunday morning. The blaze broke out at the Caiseal Mara Hotel in Moville at around 4am just hours before a meeting to arrange a welcome party for the asylum seekers was held. Local firefighters managed […]

Read More

Landlords to be criminalised for breaching rent caps

25.11.2018

Landlords who raise rents higher than the legally allowed limit in rent pressure zones will be criminalised and may be forced to re-let their property at the appropriate price, the Attorney General has warned. Séamus Woulfe SC told a Lawyers Against Homelessness (LAH) event on Thursday, hosted by Constance Cassidy SC at the Capuchin Day […]

Read More

Do you or a member of your community have a story about women migrants in Ireland or abroad?

23.11.2018

Join us this weekend at EPIC The Emigration Museum to share your story.   We’re keen to collect new and previously unheard stories of women migrants – whether they be distant relatives whose stories have been passed down from one generation to the next, or contemporary women forging a new path for themselves in Ireland […]

Read More

Irish parents to be given full year off to look after newborns

23.11.2018

Irish parents will be able to take an entire year off to look after their newborn in light of plans to extend parental benefit, it has been reported. Both parents will receive seven weeks of paid leave each by 2021. This combined with existing maternity and paternity entitlements and normal annual leave will give couples […]

Read More

Brexit agreement: highlights from EU, UK deal on future relationship

22.11.2018

Britain and the European Union have agreed in principle on a text setting out their future relationship. The deal is pending endorsement by the bloc’s leaders at a summit on Sunday. Here are some key elements of the 26-page draft text. It is part of a package alongside the 500-page legal treaty, known as the […]

Read More

Scientific Hypnotherapy is available in Ireland now

21.11.2018

Hypnotism in one form or another has been practiced for a very long time. For hundreds of years the Yogis of Ancient India have applied the practice in various ways. They would throw themselves and others into a trance state of mind through concentration on various mantras. Hypnotic phenomena can be observed in the ancient […]

Read More

Irish passports issued to UK increase, while numbers fall in France, Germany and Spain

20.11.2018

OVER THE PAST three years, the London embassy has issued the highest number of Irish passports of any diplomatic office in the world, while the rate for other European cities has trailed off. While approval rates of UK requests for Irish passports has increased in the past few years – and in particular since the […]

Read More

Drivers who install dash cams will now get insurance discount

14.11.2018

Motorists who are prepared to use a dash cam in their car will be given a discount on their insurance. The move by Axa is part of a plan to cut down on fraudulent injury claims. It comes after plans by the Garda to target uninsured drivers were welcomed by the Road Safety Authority. Axa […]

Read More

Rents continue to hit all-time highs with 11.3% national rise – report

13.11.2018

Rents have risen on average by more than 11% nationally in the 12 months from September last year, according to the latest report by property website Daft.ie. The website’s latest quarterly rental report says the rise represents the tenth consecutive quarter in which a new all-time high for rents has been set, and also in which annual […]

Read More