RTE – NEWS
- Inspector accuses Prison Service of impeding its work July 9, 2026The Inspector of Prisons has accused the Prison Service of interfering with his work by impeding access to inspect prisons.
- Retailers expect diesel prices to rise by this weekend July 9, 2026Forecourt retailers have said they expect diesel prices at the pump to rise by around ten cent per litre by this weekend.
- Safeguarding group to carry out DUP review over Donaldson July 9, 2026The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has asked a safeguarding group to carry out a review of former leader and convicted paedophile Jeffrey Donaldson's time in the party.
- Challenge to new legal fees likely to be heard this month July 9, 2026A High Court challenge to the new criminal legal aid payments scheme is likely to be heard at the end of this month.
- Accidental deaths verdict recorded at Mayo crash inquest July 9, 2026An inquest has been told that a mother and her two daughters died instantly when their car collided with an oil tanker in Co Mayo in 2024.
- PwC staffer working remotely from India instead of Dublin July 9, 2026A financial services employee discovered to have been working remotely from India for weeks when he should have been based in his office in Dublin has lost a challenge to his dismissal.
- Fórsa public sector members to be balloted on action July 9, 2026The country's largest public service trade union, Fórsa, is to ballot more than 90,000 members in the public sector to see if they are willing to take industrial action over pay.
- Malaga crash victims 'lived life to the full' July 9, 2026A couple who died in a car crash in Spain last month have been remembered at two funerals in Co Westmeath.
- Appeal to public to restore habitats to help pollinators July 9, 2026An ambitious new five-year strategy to reverse the decline of Ireland's pollinating insects and create a landscape where bees and other pollinators can find food and shelter every 200 metres has been launched at the National Botanic Gardens in Dublin.



















