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Water charges issue has implications beyond schools

Tadhg Daly, chief executive of the Irish Nursing Homes Organisation, says they, too, feel they are entitled to a derogation from the new charges rules

No further news of missing backpacker

Journalist Patrick Shiel has the latest on the search going on in the Torres del Paine national park near the Chilean border

London says 'No' to NI tax proposals

DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson says he is disappointed that the UK government has rejected harmonisation of corporation tax on the island, but not surprised

Murder suspect sought psychiatric help in two hospitals

Dr Brendan Doody, acting Clinical Director, HSE Child and Adolescent psychiatry, says mental health problems are more prevalent in younger people

Brian Howard, CEO, Mental Health Ireland, says the development and provision of mental health services is piecemeal

Onshore storage of lobsters benefits island fishermen

Emma McNamara discovered how the system works - and how much benefit the Inis Oírr fishermen get from it

Greenspan warns of signs of stagflation

Alan Greenspan, former US Federal Reserve chairman, sees a combination of slow economic growth and rising prices

Dr Alan Ahearne, Lecturer in Economics, NUI Galway, and Brendan Keenan, Group Business Editor, Independent Newspapers, discuss the prospect of stagflation

Youth programme benefitting from European Social Fund

Anne-Marie McNerney met some of those participating in the Youth Reach project in Blanchardstown in Dublin

High Society report for Oireachtas Committee today

Simon Coveney, Fine Gael TD for Cork South Central, says he is disappointed that the RTÉ response to the controversial programme lacks clarity