The Cabinet will discuss the more than unfortunate fiasco surrounding the as yet unbuilt national children’s hospital today.

When an autopsy expert with 30 years of experience suspects a possible link between suicide and the use of powerful anti-depressant drugs, it becomes a matter of the utmost concern and one that warrants immediate investigation.

The impassioned speech by Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin at its ard fheis was intended to give the rudderless Soldiers of Destiny a new sense of direction.

Fianna Fáil’s eighth leader Micheál Martin opened his party’s 73rd ard fheis in Dublin last night with a speech on republicanism.

A farmer was fined €25,000 in a Tralee court yesterday for destroying a 1,000-year-old ring fort on his land.

Tuesday’s announcement by Taoiseach Enda Kenny that a referendum will be held on the EU’s fiscal compact had hardly concluded before suggestions were made that we should use the threat of a “no” vote to secure credit write-offs or, at the very least, reduced terms for some of the vast debt foisted on Ireland.

The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Ian Bailey could not be extradited to France in connection with the Christmastime murder of Sophie Tuscan du Plantier in 1996.

If deputy Micheál Martin had harboured hopes that Fianna Fáil’s first ard fheis under his leadership would be a headline-grabbing event, the sudden resignation of Éamon Ó Cuív, his deputy leader, makes that a certainty.

In a world ravaged by wars and economic crises, ‘good’ news is as rare as hen’s teeth. It is heartening, therefore, to hear that an Irish Government initiative has not only borne fruit but made lots of money.

Now that a decision has been made to hold a vote on the revised European Union fiscal treaty all who wish to see it ratified by Ireland must work to ensure that everyone entitled to vote in the referendum understands — completely — the consequences of their vote and what their decision means for us and for our children.