Next weekend, the Health Professions Admissions Test will be taken by thousands of students who want to study medicine. But can a stressful multiple-choice written exam really predict suitability for the profession?

Legislation permitting employees to ask not to show up is on the way, but the right to work from home is not guaranteed for everyone

Rugby’s Six Nations matches aren’t on Ireland’s designated list of free-to-air, sports, neither is Uefa’s Nations League. But none of the four priority bills presented by sports minister Catherine Martin’s department dealt with a problem that is based solely on financial considerations

Comment: The fallout from the Mother and Baby Homes report has shown up the issues surrounding Article 26 of the Constitution

Thanks to one coding slip-up on the Leaving Cert algorithm, students across the country are once again knocked off course

By delaying the release of results here, we were able to learn from Britain’s A-Level algorithms fiasco. But we’re not out of the woods yet

This year’s new system of calculated grades had to be designed and implemented very quickly, and some litigation is inevitable, but there are reasons to be optimistic too

Our Constitution states that the cabinet should contain no more than 15 members, but with so many new super junior ministries being formed, it seems to just keep growing

In plain English, Dublin Bus will simply pocket your change

Critics of the Leaving find it hard to come up with an alternative – for good reason

Working long after the office closes is par for the course here, but a recent legal ruling should force employers to think again

Failing to turn up for a restaurant reservation should not be consequence-free

Can new legislation really put an end to ticket price gouging?

Few things in modern Ireland are seen as absolutely fair, transparent and accountable – but the dreaded exam is one of them

With nothing in writing, the rotating-minister deal between Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran and Seán Canney may not have stood up in court

Following a social media storm, the IRFU has apologised for 'mistakenly advertising' for a national sports science intern, saying that they don’t have any unpaid internship positions

It’s very easy to form a company using false information. Too easy, as one man found out

In which an Oxford-educated Harvard Law hopeful learns that you can’t sue your university for a first - you have to earn it

Martin O’Neill’s contract has made the headlines - but what about the FAI’s duty to fans who are still waiting to see who the national team will actually be playing?

We should think hard about making it a crime for people to put themselves in situations from which they need rescuing