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More than 7,600 children referred to HSE’s mental health service turned away last year

More than 7,600 children referred by GPs to the HSE’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) last year were turned away because they did not meet strict criteria for eligibility.

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Shane Coleman Opinion Balance of power: Energy security and the unforgiving voter

What happens if the lights go out?

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Shane Ross Opinion ‘Behold Leo, the landlords’ hero, the tenants’ hero, the hero of the squeezed middle, the dispenser of increased welfare payments’

Are you ready for the Fine Gael budget? You have to hand it to Leo. Last Wednesday, fresh from his holiday, the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise saturated Ireland’s airwaves, sharing glad tidings about what would be in Budget 2023.

Letters to the Editor Opinion From the mouths of wild goats

Sir — Will you bear with me for an aul poem in honour of King Puck?

Editorial Opinion Griffith deserves greater credit for his crucial role

Arthur Griffith died 100 years ago today, and it is sad to reflect that in our decade of centenaries, no major official state ceremony has been held to mark his extraordinary contribution to the life of the nation.

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Arthur Griffith profile: The architect of Irish independence – but who’s eclipsed in memory by Michael Collins

Arthur Griffith, described by James Joyce as “the little man with no neck,” certainly had enough gumption to stand up to British imperialism and to lay the foundations for an independent Ireland before his untimely death 100 years ago.

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Philip Ryan Opinion Surely Paschal Donohoe could give the Government surplus back to hard-pressed citizens?

Paschal Donohoe is back – and he’s still as prudent as ever.

Paschal Donohoe calls on Sinn Féin to clarify position on all social welfare payments after calling for €50 dole hike

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has called on Sinn Féin to clarify its position on social welfare payments, after the main opposition party proposed a €50 weekly increase in Jobseeker’s Allowance.

Sinn Féin wants 10 years taken off contribution limit for state pension

SINN Féin is pushing for the maximum state pension PRSI contribution limit to be cut by 10 years.

Letters to the Editor Opinion When it comes Vladimir Putin, Ian O’Doherty tells it like it is

I WANT to thank Ian O’Doherty for the piece he wrote about Vladimir Putin (‘For once, the UN is right – we’re standing on the edge of a deadly nuclear precipice’, Irish Independent, August 3). Ian is one of my favourite scribes. He tells it like it is, non-PC. I would love to have a pint with him.

‘Urgent action’ required to tackle rental crisis as number of evictions double, says Sinn Féin’s Eoin Ó Broin

The Government must take “urgent action” to tackle a crisis in the private rental sector as more renters are being served with eviction notices during a housing crisis, Sinn Féin housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin has said.

Sinn Féin pushes for €50-a-week rise to help jobless fight cost-of-living crisis

Sinn Féin is proposing an almost €50-a-week increase in the Jobseeker’s Allowance to address the cost-of-living crisis.

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exclusive Sunday Independent Poll: This will be the winter of our discontent

We are in a lull before the winter storm. The evenings are shortening toward summer’s end. Overhead cloud never quite burnt away this year. It was a heavy summer pregnant with anxiety for what lies ahead.

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Eoin Ó Broin Opinion Time is running out for families living in defective Celtic Tiger homes

Eleven years ago this October, the residents of Priory Hall in n orth Dublin were forced to evacuate their homes on foot of a High Court order.

Letters to the Editor Opinion To limit food production now would be an act of sheer insanity

Sir — A week ago, targets for Ireland’s emissions were finally agreed. As farmers we were told to reduce emissions by 25pc. A few days later, we saw the UN genuflecting to a tyrant in the hope that he would allow grain to leave a Ukrainian port to help alleviate a global food crisis. This same tyrant caused the disruption in the first place by invading and causing mayhem in his neighbouring country. It is be yond incredible to think that European energy policy has also gifted him the light switch of Europe.

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Senan Molony Opinion Fractured state of Northern Ireland laid bare in week of Trimble tributes and more inertia

Few Irish people know there used to be an equestrian statue of King Billy, William III, victor of the Battle of the Boyne, proudly imposed on Dame Street in Dublin.

Just €1.1m collected in levies on derelict sites despite the landowners owing €4.5m

Owners of derelict sites have paid less than a quarter of the €4.5m they owed in levies to local authorities last year.

Editorial Opinion David Trimble did all he could, and Ireland is the better for it

Doing the right – but unpopular – thing can find a person stoned from the rubble of the pedestal on which they once stood.

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Frank Coughlan Opinion Is history about to get its own back on Fianna Fáil?

When I was growing up, Irish life was dominated by a triumvirate of powerful institutions which dictated how society saw and ruled itself.

Sinn Féin expel councillor Cathal McLaughlin following sexual assault conviction

A Sinn Féin councillor has been expelled from the party after being convicted of sexual assault.

DUP reveals why it received a £9,000 donation from MP Ian Paisley last year

The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has revealed why one of its MPs, Ian Paisley, made a donation of more than £9,000 to the party last year.

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Máiría Cahill Opinion Approach to empathy in the North requires a change in tune

‘Backward knuckleheads.” West Brit.” Some comments to Arlene Foster after sharing my article on stereotyping unionism last week. One user even wrote: “Hope some day the pro Brit Tory lovers in Ireland would accept their Irishness not English pro union crap.” Charming. She was also accused of victimhood for merely suggesting journalists from a nationalist background should seek to “understand the Orange culture rather than demonise it”.

Paschal Donohoe’s officials knew of AIB plan to make 70 branches cashless four days before he did

Department of Finance officials waited four days to tell Paschal Donohoe that AIB was closing cash services in 70 branches — a move the bank then reversed after a major public and political backlash.

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The penny drops: how rural uprising forced AIB bosses to scrap plans to make 70 branches go cashless

After months of poring over spread sheets and financial projections, senior executives at Allied Irish Banks (AIB) finally signed off in recent weeks on a major component in its plans to implement cost savings of €230m by next year.

Letters to the Editor Opinion Sending Irish patients to Spanish hospitals won’t improve health services here

Sir — John O’Brien (Letters, July 17) is curious about the wrong thing regarding HSE plans to send patients abroad for treatment in a deal with a Spanish private hospital built to provide the services.

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Senan Molony Opinion Saving the planet comes down to a numbers game for Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Greens – yet we’ll still lose

Now we really are playing the percentages… something which politicians have always done, in a metaphorical sense. They make calculations all the time. It’s how you get elected.

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‘Come home and be part of the new Ireland’ – Mary Lou McDonald’s call to arms delivered to audience of enthralled exiles in Australia

“I mean, Liverpool,” Mary Lou McDonald said. “There is a debate as to whether it is in fact English.” Laughter broke out at the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra and the sole Liverpudlian in the audience gave the Sinn Féin leader a thumbs-up as she spoke of her wish for Britain to become “good neighbours” again with Ireland.

Editorial Opinion Let’s build a shared, equal and agreed future

The Twelfth of July celebrations in Northern Ireland have been described by police as “one of the safest and most peaceful in recent memory”. That is the good news. It should be noted that almost 600 Orange Order parades took place across Northern Ireland last week, the vast majority of which passed off without incident.

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Shane Ross Opinion Old boys’ summer dip reveals political life is grown stagnant

‘The permanent government’ is a phrase normally used to take a pop at democracy. We use it when we want to indicate that politicians are mortal, temporary. Here today but thankfully gone tomorrow.

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John Downing Opinion The cost-of-living crisis could cast a cloud over TDs as they head off on holidays

There has long been an annual charade of the opposition feigning outrage as metaphoric buckets and spades rattle around Leinster House in preparation for the summer break.