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Dec 1, 2023 | 
rte.ie | Conor McMorrow |Staying child-free |Man paralysed
Community workers and politicians in Dublin's north inner-city area are concerned that some parents from migrant backgrounds have been reluctant to send their children back to school following the Parnell Square school knife attack last week. "Some of the children from migrant backgrounds haven't returned to school. They're genuinely terrified," local TD Gary Gannon told Prime Time.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
rte.ie | Conor McMorrow |Staying child-free |Vatican confirms ban
Something curious is happening in the Irish property market. Bucking age-old trends, house prices are dropping in Dublin and rising outside the capital. The latest Residential Property Price Index data released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on Wednesday showed that in the 12 months to September, property prices in Dublin decreased by 1.9%, while outside Dublin they went up by 4%.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
rte.ie | Conor McMorrow |Staying child-free
Dozens of zero-emission buses ordered by the National Transport Authority (NTA) 18 months ago are not yet in service, partly due to delays in installing charging infrastructure at two Dublin bus depots. The NTA ordered 120 electric buses in June 2022, as part of a framework to provide 800 zero-emission buses for Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann over five years. Of the 120 buses ordered, 100 were for Dublin Bus and 20 were for Bus Éireann.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
rte.ie | Staying child-free
Republican Jim Jordan has pressed ahead with his bid for speaker of the US House of Representatives, after his fellow Republicans abandoned a backup plan to allow the leaderless chamber to resume business. The House will hold a third speaker vote when it opens for business at 10am EST (3pm Irish time), his spokesperson Russell Dye said. Mr Jordan has fallen short in two votes already.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
rte.ie | Staying child-free
Families are being urged to a take a 24-hour break from all smart devices today. The annual 'CyberBreak' encourages people to put away their phones, tablets, computers and games consoles from 5pm this evening until 5pm tomorrow. Internet safety charity CyberSafeKids, which is behind the initiative, said a recent survey it conducted shows that school children acknowledge that their use of social media and online gaming is excessive, but need help to learn how to switch off.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
rte.ie | Teresa Mannion |Staying child-free
The University of Galway has led international research showing up to half a million people in Ireland are living with osteoporosis. The condition causes bones to become brittle resulting in skeletal failure. Academics and clinicians are calling for an osteoporosis care programme to be put in place as a national priority. The findings were released to coincide with World Osteoporosis Day and using data from the Irish health service spanning 20 years.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
rte.ie | Barry Lenihan |Staying child-free
The Minister of State for Disabilities Anne Rabbitte is seeking an urgent meeting with the HSE and Tusla after learning how a young intellectually-disabled boy was sexually assaulted in a HSE-funded residential care centre. The 12-year-old boy was victim of two separate assaults by another resident at the centre in recent weeks.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
rte.ie | Staying child-free
A 57-year-old woman has died after being swept into a river in Angus in Scotland as Storm Babet batters the country. Police Scotland said the woman's body was recovered this afternoon at Water of Lee, Glen Esk, where a red weather alert for heavy rain is currently in place. It comes as thousands more were left without power and facing flooding from "unprecedented" amounts of rain in east Scotland, while Babet is set to spread into northern and eastern England on Friday.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
rte.ie | Staying child-free
US police are trying to identify at least 189 decomposing corpses found at a "green" funeral home. Officers were called to the Return to Nature Funeral Home earlier this month after reports of an "abhorrent smell" from the property, 160km south of Denver. Investigators say they were greeted with a "horrific" scene of scores of festering bodies. The funeral home's owner, Jon Hallford, acknowledged to regulators that he had a "problem". "Mr Hallford...
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
rte.ie | Laura Hogan |Staying child-free
More than 430,000 cigarettes have been seized in Co Cavan. The seizure was made following the search of a vehicle and a man in his 20s was arrested. The intelligence-led operation involved Revenue and An Garda Síochána. Revenue said that the illicit cigarettes were branded 'Sobraine' and have a retail value of more than €341,000. This represents a potential loss of approximately €267,000 to the exchequer.
