Bartering is back as Irish go swapping

Websites for bartering over goods and services are booming as thrifty internet users try to save money

Brenda Power: The nuns would not have stood for it

The lack of accountability of the HSE and of health staff is the real cause of the hospital crisis

Northern Ireland rioters 'were bussed-in'

Twenty one police officers were injured as group fired shot and threw petrol bombs, bricks, bottles and golf balls

Police injured in Northern Ireland riots

At least one shot was fired, Molotov cocktails were thrown and one woman died after being hit by a car at a demonstration

Emerson hits the spot

Fool on the drill

What a gas

Worthless piece

We will march on with gay pride despite sneers

Atticus: John Burns

Comedian Ed Byrne is going to have to fatten up for heavyweight role as Gerry Ryan

Profile: Amy Huberman

A chick lit novel is the latest chapter for the woman about town with television stardom and a sporting hero on her arm

Fury at DCU’s ‘excessive’ staff row legal fees

Dublin City University has spend over €700,000 of tax-payers money on employment disputes in the last three years alone

Planning row over voting machines

Monaghan county council has started legal proceedings against the owner of a shed used to store 288 of the machines

Pork crisis farmer sues his own firm

Robert Hogg, the farmer whose plant produced contaminated feed is taking himself to court in order to win compensation

Deputies demand expense changes

Fianna Fail backbenchers have challenged a new scheme that would cut the Oireachtas budget by 10%

Dublin’s bus gate faces legal challenge from car park owner

Owners of a city centre car park are seeking a judicial review of the controversial plan to close college green to traffic

Charity anger at Tesco ‘pressure’

The supermarket is under fire for suggesting community groups pass on a percentage of money raised to their chosen cause

Loyalists’ bonfires become beacons of hope

Ulster loyalists celebrating King Billy’s 1690 victory are using eco-friendly beacons rather than towering bonfires

Irish cost of living falls through the floor

Annual rate of inflation is running at minus 5.4 per cent as price declines revisit the years of the Great Depression

Shortage of priests forces a new look at Catholic church

The merging of parishes and the use of laymen to administer some services are among the church’s plans