Ms Reem Alsalam, is the United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women and girls – and it’s her job to monitor, document, and report on said human rights violations around the world.

Another month has brought another new homelessness record, with more than half of all adults in emergency accommodation confirmed as non-Irish citizens. According to the Monthly Homelessness Report ...

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has carried out “dawn raids” of businesses active in the solar panel industry as part of an ongoing investigation into suspected breaches of ...

A priest has died and four other people – including two other priests – left seriously injured after a stabbing attack at a Benedictine monastery in Jaroslaw in Poland today. A 31-year-old Ukrainian ...

There were some important political exchanges this week as the Oireachtas Health Committee examined the Health (Abolition of the Three Day Wait Rule) Amendment Bill. The Sinn Féin proposal would scrap ...

A Social Democrats TD has drawn criticism for suggesting that entire websites should be shut down to prevent the spread of harmful content – a proposal likened to something from a “totalitarian regime ...

Cllr Albert Deasy asks if local councillors pay a price for challenging the media - and argues that he doesn’t want a friend in the media, he just wants fairness.

A growing body of research is challenging a long-standing public narrative about violence against transgender Americans and instead suggesting that intimate partner violence, not ‘hate crime’, is the ...

Nearly forty years after the Chornobyl disaster pushed Italy to abandon atomic energy, the country’s Senate gave final approval this week to legislation that reopens the door to nuclear power. The ...

Following Dublin City Council’s release of social housing data broken down by nationality, a Fianna Fáil councillor has said other local authorities should follow suit.

In a response to a PQ from Offaly Independent TD Carol Nolan, the Minister for Justice, Jim O’Callaghan, has stated that “there are over 900 people subject to deportation order residing in IPAS ...

Controversial plans to light up Belfast City Hall in support of abortion will not now take place on Monday after a council procedure was used to challenge the decision. Pro-life group, Precious Life, ...