Fine Gael’s election promises of 2011 turned out to be nothing more than aspiration, with healthcare and the vulnerable all suffering in the meantime.

France has conceded there is no scientific point in the ban of homosexuals giving blood. It is well beyond time that Health Minister Leo Varadkar lifted the stigma hanging over all gay men in this country, writes Shaun Connolly

This 91-year-old with Parkinson’s didn’t need a cure, he needed care. And this was when Ireland was found to be at its most careless. The whistleblower is being attacked ... but it is Mr Kenny who is to blame, writes Shaun Connolly

The pro-choice side is in danger of repeating the early complacency of the marriageequality campaign in their apparent desire to assume an easy win in the referendum, by merely talking to people who think the same as they do, writes Shaun Connolly