Almost three-quarters of people incarcerated in Irish prisons have some form of substance addiction – but face long waits for treatment.

Newstalk staff were informed yesterday of Cuddihy’s move to the national broadcaster.

“Focus Ireland would prefer energies went into ending homelessness rather than moving around its victims,” says Mike Allen, director of advocacy.

The withdrawal of temporary cost-of-living measures has been cited as a key factor in the ESRI analysis.

Australia's Queensland state government said on Friday it would run coal power plants at least into the 2040s, reversing a previous plan to pivot rapidly to renewables and in turn making national emissions reduction targets harder to achieve.

Concerns have been raised about how Ireland is responding to the growing number of separated children arriving in the State without parents or guardians.

Ministers must do "much more" to explain why Palestine Action is a proscribed terrorist group, Harriet Harman has said.

China has stepped up the enforcement of its controls on chip imports, as Beijing seeks to wean the country's technology companies away from U.S. products such as Nvidia's artificial intelligence processors, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

Dozens killed, thousands displaced, hundreds of new outposts: the stark reality of Israel's assault on the West Bank has been laid bare

Powerful blasts reported in Kyiv as missiles and drones target energy infrastructure, injuring nine The Ukrainian capital was plunged into darkness early on Friday by what the air force called a “massive attack”, as Russia pummelled Kyiv’s infrastructure, cutting off water and energy supplies and triggering a fire in a high-rise apartment building. Kyiv’s mayor said Russian forces had targeted “critical infrastructure” and nine people had been injured, with five of them taken to hospital. Vitali Klitschko also said power cuts and disruptions to the water supply had hit districts on the east bank of the Dnipro River that runs through the city. Continue reading...

Analysts stress Trump pressure essential to prevent Netanyahu from disrupting the Gaza ceasefire for political survival.