But it was when she switched to a junior minister role for European affairs from 2017 to 2020 that she started to impress colleagues. Photograph: Sam Boal/CollinsAs a super junior minister, Hildegarde Naughton did attend Cabinet meetings but has now been promoted for the first time to a senior ministry. She then won a seat in the 2016 general election in Galway West and again in the 2020 general election. He decided not to contest the 2016 general election for Fine Gael, certain that he would lose his seat over the hospital controversy. He topped the poll in the 2024 general election and again became a junior minister in the Department of Health.

The survey suggests 68 per cent of job seekers are using AI to improve their applications while 82 per cent of employers are using the technology to help assess the applications. Photograph: iStockThe use of AI by both job applicants and hiring companies has plunged corporate recruitment into a “doom loop” in which it is becoming harder for either side to successfully navigate the process, according to research from hiring platform Greenhouse. What we see is people using AI to add a bunch of noise, and then other people trying to use AI to take the noise back out. ‘Congratulations, you got the job ... we need your bank account information, we need your ID so we can pay you.’ It’s really awful.”“More than half of job seekers we surveyed in Ireland have encountered these type of fake job postings, 54 per cent. In the US, it was over almost 70 per cent of job seekers.”

An Garda Siochana required additional funding to cover the cost of public order policing and other expenses, as various Government departments sought financing top ups. Photograph: PAGovernment departments will need more than €2 billion in additional funding this year to cover costs that exceeded their initial budgets. The Department of Education alone will require a supplementary estimate of €567 million while the Department of Health will need an additional €302 million. The Department of Social Protection, the Department of Children and the Department of Transport will each require more than €200 million in additional funding to be approved by the Dáil. That includes an additional €109 million over the original spending estimate for the working family payment and €90 more for disability allowance payments.

Gardaí have launched an international inquiry via diplomatic channels on the authenticity of documentation concerning a Somalian youth accused of murdering Ukrainian teenager Vadym Davydenko in care in Dublin. However, those measures were not required at his latest court appearance, his first conducted via video link from a juvenile remand facility. He told Judge Kelly that the case file was at an advanced stage, but that important postmortem and forensic reports were still awaited. Judge Kelly remanded him in continuing custody to appear on that date by video link for the DPP’S directions. Det Sgt Quill added: “Enquiries remain ongoing in relation to documentation.

Human rights organisations have criticised the death sentence given to ousted Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday by the country’s International Crimes Tribunal. Ms Hasina (78) was found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death in absentia, as was her former home minister, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal. Ms Hasina fled to India in August last year, following a crackdown on protests which led to as many as 1,400 deaths, according to a UN assessment. Sheikh Hasina, signs a book of condolence following the death of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022. Ms Hasina fled to India in August last year.

Plans by Manna Drones to retain a drone delivery hub for Coolmine Industrial Estate in Dublin 15 are facing local opposition. Dr Higgins of Cherry Drive, Dublin 15 told the council that “since its operation began, residents in the Dublin 15 area, including myself, have experienced persistent and intrusive noise from drones frequently flying over our homes”. A small number of local residents have come out in favour of the planned retention of the delivery hub. One of those was Peter Maxwell of Portersgate Drive, Dublin 15 who stated that “any service that helps to reduce the traffic load is of benefit to the area and community in general. He added that since February 2024, Manna had completed 52,000 deliveries in the area and “directly employs 50 people who live in Dublin 15” .

Gardaí at a house in the Shrewsbury Downs estate off the Ballinlough Road, Cork City, where a couple were attacked. The woman and her husband (62) were attacked by a man armed with a knife in their home in Shrewsbury Downs, off the Ballinlough Road in Cork city, at about 9.15pm on Monday night. A green area at the Shrewsbury Downs estate in Cork where a woman was found fatally injured on Monday night. Photograph: Barry RocheGardaí began door-to-door inquiries in the Shrewsbury Downs estate last night, and they have begun taking witness statements on Tuesday morning from a number of local people. Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to come forward, and are keen to talk to anyone who was in the Shrewsbury Downs area of Ballinlough between 8.30pm and 9.30pm.

The Department of Foreign Affairs paid out nearly €30 million in allowances to staff in the space of 18 months. Allowance payments in 2024 totalled €19.1 million, with a further €10.8 million paid out during the first six months of this year. These are payments made to cover the “additional indirect costs” involved in the representational role of diplomatic staff. A total of €1.1 million was paid in other allowances, which includes a lengthy list of entitlements for certain staff. Asked about the expenditure, a Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman said all their staff were paid in line with official pay scales.

Ireland’s advertising watchdog has upheld a complaint against an off-licence group that claimed in a “humorous and exaggerated” advertisement written by artificial intelligence (AI) that Buckfast Tonic Wine would leave consumers “feeling like they’re on top of the world”. “I drank Buckfast Tonic Wine before my job interview and I got the job! “I had a glass of Buckfast Tonic Wine before my wedding and I don’t remember saying ‘I do,’ but my wife assures me that I did,” according to another testimonial. ASA said its independent council noted that the advertisers had withdrawn the advertisement on receipt of the complaint. “The council also noted that the area of Douglas extended to approximately 32km and encompassed 19 townlands,” ASA said.

In 2007 Tsankova and her husband, Miroslav, had moved to Italy from their native Bulgaria, to try and find work but they didn’t have much success. My husband is working and I’m on the beach by myself.”While waiting for the bus home Tsankova overheard a woman named Albena speaking Bulgarian. The streets are cute and spatial.”Back in Kilkenny, Tsankova went to a local estate agent and rented a small shop. Over the next few days and weeks people flocked to Tsankova’s store and the orders came flooding in. Today Tsankova’s shop has a cult following and has moved premises to a spacious store next to Kilkenny Castle.

Parking fees of €1.20 per hour are to be introduced on Wednesday at Stillorgan Village Shopping Centre in South Dublin, just in time for the busy Christmas shopping period. The UK-owned company, which has operated the Stillorgan car parks for more than two decades, also runs the multistorey underground car park at the Mater hospital in Dublin 7, as well as a car park at the National Convention Centre in Dublin 1. “Too bad they’ve followed the crowd.”The announcement comes days after residents protested plans to introduce car park barriers at Blanchardstown Shopping Centre in Dublin 15. The application includes a proposal to introduce “car parking management controls” to the multistorey and surface car parks, “including associated barriers”. In 2022, the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre in west Dublin introduced charges of €2.50 for the first three hours of parking, after which an hourly rate of €2.50 is in place.

Polish prime minister Donald Tusk, second right, visits the site of the rail line in Mika that was damaged by sabotage, near Deblin, Poland. Photograph: KPRM/APPoland has identified two people responsible for an explosion on a railway route to Ukraine, prime minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday, adding that they were Ukrainians who collaborated with Russian intelligence and that they had fled to Belarus. [ Poland railway blast was ‘unprecedented act of sabotage’, says Donald TuskOpens in new window ]Russia has repeatedly denied being responsible for acts of sabotage and on Tuesday the Kremlin dismissed accusations of involvement. He said that other trains had gone over the affected piece of track before one stopped. In a second incident near Pulawy, a steel clamp was installed on the track with the likely aim of derailing the train, Tusk said.

Photograph: Alan BetsonTwenty-eight thousand children on primary care psychology waiting lists. Primary care psychology is simply overwhelmed. Primary care is the front line of health services, the first point of contact; it is where most health care happens. There is nothing that can’t be fixed in primary care psychology services. Primary care psychology addresses many of the conditions that lose opportunities for both individual wellbeing and productivity for the state.

“I take full responsibility for my misguided decision to continue communicating with Mr Epstein. Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren told CNN that Mr Summers should be held accountable for his years-long relationship with Epstein. Mr Summers is now the subject of a new investigation that Donald Trump started last week. The exchanges, from 2013 to early 2019, showed Mr Summers and Epstein sharing personal views about politics and relationships. The relationship between Mr Summers and Epstein was previously reported by the Wall Street Journal in 2023.

Paschal Donohoe and Tánaiste Simon Harris, who will be his replacement in the Department of Finance. He was key in maintaining relations with Fianna Fáil especially. With each of these Fianna Fáil Ministers, Donohoe formed the central axis of successive coalitions. Donohoe was always the leader of Fine Gael who Fianna Fáil most feared. Less than a year after Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil were returned to power, the Government is substantially weaker and its problems are piling up.