Stormont’s leaders have criticised the Irish Government for failing to share information on travellers arriving on the island during the pandemic.

The Tanaiste has warned that the outbreak of coronavirus cases in the Republic of Ireland's hospitals remains "precarious".

The number of women who went through mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland is expected to be "significantly" higher than previously estimated.

WOMEN in mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland experienced the same treatment as those in the Republic, deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill has said.

There have now been a total of 1,517 deaths and 91,809 confirmed cases, according to the Department of Health. 

The Taoiseach has insisted he in “no way” sought to diminish the role of the Church or the State in the treatment of women and their children in mother and baby homes.

Health workers who were close contacts of coronavirus cases are being called back to work before they finish isolating for 14 days, it has emerged.

THE shame for the appalling neglect of women and children in Ireland’s mother and baby homes lies squarely with the Catholic Church, who not only owned the homes but created a society where single mothers were deemed sinners to be locked away.