The Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) carried out an unannounced inspection of UHL last November

Gardaí confirmed a man in his 30s was arrested on Thursday morning.

The findings form part of the latest Irish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey, commissioned by the Department of Health.

Friends have already raised almost €70,000 of their €500,000 target.

The device was discovered after a man in his 40s was apprehended during anti-crime patrols in Finglas

The tech giant said it is aware of an issue where alarms do not play the expected sound.

Kamile Vaicikonyte (17) was killed along with 19-year-old Jamie Moore when a blue BMW crashed on the Doogary Road on the A5

Terence Crosbie (37) re-appeared in court in Boston on Wednesday

A range of stories lead the front pages of Ireland’s newspapers on Thursday.

The corporation’s lawyers are to write to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal about the alleged surveillance of former reporter Vincent Kearney.

It comes as new statistics show that the cost of rent has gone up by 5.9% in existing tenancies and 9.1% for new renters in the last year.

Northern Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris had a ‘constructive phone call’ with Tánaiste Micheál Martin.

Hundreds of asylum seekers were removed from a makeshift camp on Wednesday morning.

The former head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service said business was still done but it affected relations.

Several people were arrested during clashes with public order gardaí during a demonstration at the site last week

Two men have been arrested after cocaine and cannabis worth over €1.7 million was seized in Dublin

Diplomatic tensions between London and Dublin have increased in recent days.

A criminal on trial accused of attempting to pervert the course of justice was "trying to secure justice" in his attempts to persuade a witness not to give evidence at garda killer Aaron Brady's murder trial, a barrister has told the Special Criminal Court

A judge has jailed an 80-year old former Limerick Scout Leader to six years and eight months in prison for molesting five young boys, all scouts, “who still believed in Santa” in the 1970s and early 1980s

A statement in January last to the judge hearing Kitty Holland’s defamation case against John Waters, that he would be calling up to 13 defence witnesses, was described in court today as a blatant attempt to bully her