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Rate of STIs decreased 11% last year - HPSC

The notification rate for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Ireland fell 11% in 2024, according to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre.

Health • 08 Jun

There were 103,080 people born in Ireland resident in Australia as of last June

Number of Ireland-born living in Australia passes 100,000

The number of Ireland-born residents in Australia has passed 100,000, according to official figures.

World • 01 May

The number of visitors from western Europe to the US last month were down by 17.2%, according to the US agency International Trade Administration

Visitor numbers from Ireland to US down 27% last month

Visitor numbers from Ireland to the United States fell by almost 27% in March compared to the same month last year, US figures show.

Ireland • 13 Apr

The collection rate of 45% meant that €79.4m of customers deposits were returned to them during that time.

45% of DRS containers 'on market' returned up to August

Consumers returned fewer than one in every two drink containers placed on the market with the Re-turn logo between February and the end of August to the Deposit Return Scheme, according to new figures.

Ireland • 26 Oct 24

Latest figures show that 111 million drinks containers were returned in August, putting €20m back in consumers' pockets that month

At least 1 in 4 containers not recycled through scheme

At least one in four drinks containers sold to customers are not being recycled through the Deposit Return Scheme, latest figures from Re-turn indicate.

Ireland • 07 Sep 24

Up until now cat owners had to travel to Northern Ireland or source medicine on the black market (stock image)

Treatment for cats with fatal virus available in Ireland

Owners of cats with a fatal disease will no longer have to go to Northern Ireland or source medicine on the black market after a new system was put in place for vets in Ireland to import the drugs to treat them.

Ireland • 15 May 24

At least one in six bottles or cans have been returned so far in the scheme, figures have indicated

Millions of euros unclaimed from Deposit Return Scheme

Millions of euros worth of customers' deposits remain unclaimed from the Deposit Return Scheme three months on since its introduction.

Ireland • 04 May 24

The HSE made the claim on the 20th anniversary of the smoking ban

HSE had no evidence for claim around 2004 smoking ban

A HSE claim that there had been a decrease of 800,000 smokers since 2004 was not backed up by any of the Census data it was relying on, it has emerged.

Ireland • 27 Apr 24

Sunlight floods inner chamber of Newgrange tomb

Sunlight flooded the inner chamber of the Neolithic Passage Tomb at Newgrange this morning, on the first day of three that the Office of Public Works is live-streaming the event.

Ireland • 20 Dec 20

Detective Superintendent Colm Fox was found dead at Ballymun Garda Station last year

GSOC to investigate death of senior garda Colm Fox

The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission has launched an investigation into the circumstances of Detective Superintendent Colm Fox's death, who was the lead investigating officer in the Regency Hotel shooting.

Ireland • 20 Feb 19