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The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has called on the Government to address what it claims are 'significant gaps' in childcare and social worker services.

Gardaí investigating the disappearance of Offaly woman Fiona Pender over 11 years ago have begun to search an area on the Laois-Offaly border.

The North's police chief today branded those behind a bomb attack which injured one of his men as out of date and out of time.

The independent public information campaign on the Lisbon Treaty has been launched in Dublin.

Two men were arrested today by detectives investigating the murder of a young man near his home last Christmas.

Talks between nurses unions and the HSE resumed today at the Labour Relations Commission, in a bid to resolve the row over compensation for nurses injured at work.

The Health Services Executive has insisted there have been significant increases in the money put into children's services over the past year.

Detectives were today scouring mountain woods for the body of a part-time model who vanished almost twelve years ago.

New Finance Minister Brian Lenihan will today attend his first EU meeting in Brussels.

A British judge will rule in an Irish courtroom today as the landmark civil action claim over the Omagh bombing takes another groundbreaking step.

An off-duty police officer. has been seriously injured in what's feared was a dissident republican car bombing in County Tyrone last night.

Details will be announced today of an international summit on cluster bombs beginning in Dublin next week.