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There will be a special new licence that will allow alcohol to be served in licensed venues and nightclubs until 5am, with one further hour’s drinking-up time

Pubs will be open until half twelve every night of the week, clubbers can drink in a nightclub up to six in the morning and late bars will all serve until 2:30am under new laws to be agreed by ministers on Tuesday morning

Helen McEntee gave a run-through of her strategy to combat gender-based violence on Thursday

Ireland has accepted its “stark” domestic violence figures for too long, its justice minister has said.

€2 million was allocated to it under Budget 2022 - and this will increase to €3 million next year under Budget 2023

A proposal has been brought to the Attorney General

Gardai have warned that people caught with illegal fireworks will be brought to court, as the force is to step up its searches in border areas.

A second man has been arrested in connection to a deadly stabbing at a funeral in Tralee, Co Kerry.

A new law that will allow gardai to provide schools and creches with photographs of sex offenders will not lead to the sharing of such images on social media, the Justice Minister said.

Three teenage boys charged in connection with the ramming of a Garda car in Dublin last month have all been released on bail.

In April, Tanaiste Leo Varadker said the reforms would be in place this year in time for Christmas parties.