Irish - Last week 12th October 2025 - 18th October 2025
Inside the alcohol industry’s global campaign to delay Ireland’s world-first health labels
- Lobbying campaign spanned Dublin, Brussels and Washington
- Industry influence reached the Taoiseach’s office
- Trump’s tariffs used as leverage to delay cancer warnings
Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork
The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.
Let’s be clear: Ireland’s hospitality VAT rate will not be passed onto consumers
Once more for the people at the back: lower prices are neither the aim nor the likely outcome here.
‘We basically pay two mortgages’: Our readers share the impact of soaring childcare costs
We asked our readers to share their experience of the cost of childcare. Here’s what we heard back.