Former Irish Rugby head coach Joe Schmidt is to deliver the keynote address at an upcoming conference in Dublin.

The President is minimising his carbon footprint and taking the train to Cork on Wednesday to attend an inter-generational conference on climate change.

Archaeologists and historians from across the world have gathered in Dublin today for a conference which explores Irish monuments and how they came to be.

The 'It Stops Now' event will aim to put an end to the violence at universities and colleges.

Fáilte Ireland has announced that January has been a record month for attracting international business conferences and events to Ireland and 57 conferences worth at least €28 million to the economy have been secured for future years.

Couples seeking to divorce in Ireland are being forced down a punishing route in a complex process that can take anything from twelve to over 18 months, a legal aid conference has heard.

President Michael D Higgins has warned that new arms race by permanent members of UN Security Council will fuel current and future wars.

Fine Gael TDs and senators have been told the party is to consider holding a special conference after the next general election on coalition options for going into government.

A conference which aims to highlight concerns surrounding Ireland joining an EU defence pact has concluded.

Children are regularly treated as “passive spectators” in the debate on adequate housing in Ireland, a conference on homeless children in Galway heard yesterday.

The Minister for Health Simon Harris is due to address the final day of the Irish Nurses and Midwives' Organisation conference in Wexford today.

A pilot programme for the induction of teachers must be adequately resourced if it is to be brought in nationwide, a union has warned.

The Teachers’ Union of Ireland is to seek the complete removal of extra lecturing hours imposed as part of the Croke Park Agreement.

Recruitment and retention of mental health nurses is up for discussion today.

Cork City Council plans to discuss the fine details of security arrangements with organisers of a conference about Israel being held in City Hall later this month.

A controversial conference about Israel is to go ahead in Cork at the end of the month but will be jointly staged at City Hall and University College Cork.

Muinín, or confidence, is the theme of an international conference taking place on the Skellig coast this week.

A new music industry conference is to be held in Cork this summer, with speakers to include the head of the record label behind Mumford & Sons and Florence and the Machine, along with the agents for bands like Muse and Coldplay.

Two deaf women, one who works as a lawyer for the Obama administration and another who heads up the West Wing reception, will attend a conference this weekend on deaf education organised by an Irish parent fighting for educational equality for deaf children.

France’s president said yesterday that spiralling Middle East upheaval since the collapse of the round of Israel-Palestinian peace talks has complicated the process and makes it even more urgent to bring the two sides back to the table.

The dairy sector needs to equip itself to be more sustainable in the face of volatile markets and prolonged downturns, IFA dairy chairman Sean O’Leary has told an industry conference, writes Joe Dermody.

Police have detained about 400 people who were protesting at the national convention of the right-wing Alternative for Germany party in Stuttgart.

Access to affordable childcare and repealing the Eight Amendment are just two of the topics due to be discussed later at a major conference in Dublin.

Progress has been made towards reaching a climate change deal at a UN conference in Paris next month, the French government has said.

Children's literacy and numeracy skills are set to top the agenda at a conference of the education sector today.

More specific sex education should be considered at primary school level, according to one of the speakers at an international conference on the treatment of sex offenders which opens in Dublin today .

The survival and future of the Irish pub will be the overriding issues for publicans at their annual conference today. More than 2,000 pubs have closed in the last decade.

Pharmacists are calling for a reversal of cuts in professional fees under Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (FEMPI) Legislation.

A conference on the legalisation and regulation of drugs in Ireland will take place in DCU today.

The Garda Representative Association (GRA) opens its 36th annual conference in Killarney today. It is reasonable to say that none of the previous 35 conferences opened in an atmosphere as bristling as the one that prevails today.

Over a quarter of national school teachers do not have the resources to do their job properly, with almost two thirds unhappy with their pay levels and conditions of employment.

Ireland could reap millions of euro by tapping into the youth traveller market, delegates at a conference will be told today.

A topical conference about cybercrime takes place today at Cork Institute of Technology. Organised by the MA in Journalism with New Media class, 'The current state of cybercrime and cyberwar’ will explore a number of perspectives in the world of online crime and journalism.

A promise made to a mother who lost her son to suicide will be honoured at a special conference on mental health and suicide this coming weekend.