As Taoiseach, Micheál Martin has played the key role in seeking to 'reset' the Anglo-Irish relations so badly damaged by now-departed British prime ministers Boris Johnson and then Liz Truss

Sacking and demoting people the week before Christmas will be a trying task for both Varadkar and Martin.

In Leinster House, at the bottom of the main grand steps that lead to the entrance to the Dáil chamber are a set of couches.

The trojan horse of GDPR has been widely misused by government departments

It would happen like clockwork. Day after day, even during the lean days of the political off-season, in would arrive the email from the Sinn Féin press office, offering one of their TDs for media comment on the Leinster House plinth.

While some may baulk at the idea of her holding ambitions to lead, Foley is now a Cabinet minister of two and a half years’ standing and that fact alone puts her in the running

Last Monday afternoon, photographer Moya Nolan and I were in the portrait room in the Department of Finance with ministers Michael McGrath and Paschal Donohoe.

On December 15, Taoiseach Micheál Martin and his Cabinet will formally tender their resignations to make way for a new leader as Leo Varadkar will once again become leader of the country.

Mourners at the funeral of former Judge Fergus Flood in Sutton this week heard that he was a powerful advocate for justice and the rule of law.

On the occasion of the centenary of the death of Michael Collins at just 31 years of age during an ambush at Béal na Bláth on the evening of August 22, 1922, it is hard to escape the conclusion that his downfall was an utterly avoidable tragedy.